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Date:      Mon, 19 Feb 2001 10:47:03 -0600
From:      Tony Wells <awells@journalstar.com>
To:        cjclark@alum.mit.edu
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: IPFirewall & syslogd
Message-ID:  <3A914E07.DF2E62EF@journalstar.com>
References:  <3A8D846F.8824EEB9@journalstar.com> <20010218001901.F62368@rfx-216-196-73-168.users.reflex>

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I didn't add anything, I guess I assumed the default "security" line
would catch it.  Since it's a kernel thing and not a process, I'm not
sure what I would put in syslogd to catch the messages.

"Crist J. Clark" wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 01:50:07PM -0600, Tony Wells wrote:
> > I'm having a problem getting ipfirewall to log via syslogd.
> >
> > I compiled the kernel with the three following options:
> >
> > options IPFIREWALL
> > options       IPFIREWALL_VERBOSE
> > options IPFIREWALL_VERBOSE_LIMIT=10
> >
> > I have a firewall rule that looks like this:
> >
> > deny tcp log from any to any setup
> >
> > Which deny's all the TCP connections not explicitly allowed.  I hoped
> > to be able to see if anyone is "rattling the doorknobs", but nothing
> > gets logged to either /var/log/messages or /var/log/security if I try
> > and connect to a blocked port.
> >
> > Does anyone have any ideas why "log" isn't getting logged via syslog?
> 
> Did you put anything in /etc/syslog.conf to catch the messages?
> --
> Crist J. Clark                           cjclark@alum.mit.edu
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