Actually I never had anything in /var/log/firewall. The printout of your rpm command is. [roo[root@localhost bin]# rpm -V iptables kernel-'uname -r' S.5....T /lib/iptables/libipt_LOG.so package kernel-uname -r is not installed.
--- Gordon Messmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> skrev: > On Mon, 2002-10-21 at 22:28, linux power wrote: > > > > iptables -N firewall > > iptables -A firewall -m limit --limit 15/minute -j > LOG > > --log-prefix "/var/log/firewall" > > That will fail on older iptables versions, where the > maximum length of > the log-prefix is 14 characters. The log-prefix > isn't a file or > directory where messages are logged, it's a message > that appears at the > beginning of every entry that's logged *in syslog* > because of that rule. > > Those exact commands worked on a RHL 8.0 machine on > which I tested. > > What versions of iptables and kernel do you have > installed? Does rpm > report any size or md5 differences when you do: > rpm -V iptables kernel-`uname -r` > > > iptables -A firewall -j DROP > > And the dir /var/log/firewall excist. > > It has worked before this way. > > If you had messages in /var/log/firewall, then you'd > set up syslog to do > so. The kernel's packet filters (whether ipchains > or iptables) always > logs through syslog, never directly to files. > > > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe > mailto:redhat-list-request@;redhat.com?subject=unsubscribe > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list ===== http://home.no.net/~knutove/knut_ove_hauge_kuren.htm ______________________________________________________ Se den nye Yahoo! Mail på http://no.yahoo.com/ Nytt design, enklere å bruke, alltid tilgang til Adressebok, Kalender og Notisbok -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@;redhat.com?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
