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Date:      Fri, 07 Jan 2000 16:30:17 -0500
From:      Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>
To:        Michael Maxwell <drwho@xnet.com>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Sudden crashing?
Message-ID:  <3.0.5.32.20000107163017.00be7e80@staff.sentex.ca>
In-Reply-To: <20000107152815.A11225@typhoon.xnet.com>

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At 03:28 PM 1/7/00 -0600, Michael Maxwell wrote:
>So far, one of my servers, a BSD 3.2-R machine, has mysteriously crashed
>twice this week.  This machine functions as a gateway and firewall to our
>internet connection, so it's the most visible host here.  I use ipfw to
>block pretty much all the low ports except those we really need, such as
>ssh, ntp, smtp, etc...
>
>I don't see anything in the logs indicating what might have happened.
>
>Not only that, but ipfw *refuses* to log to syslog on this box!?!  My 
>/etc/syslog.conf is an exact copy of the same file on another machine
>which DOES correctly log ipfw.


its been a while, but the logging on ipfw had changed at one point.  Do you
have 

kern.* 	/var/log/kernel 

or something similar in your /etc/syslog.conf file ?

	---Mike
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Mike Tancsa,                          	          tel +1 519 651 3400
Network Administrator,     			  mike@sentex.net
Sentex Communications                 		  www.sentex.net
Cambridge, Ontario Canada


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