From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 13 20:20:39 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from grumpy.dyndns.org (user-24-214-76-236.knology.net [24.214.76.236]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 822AD37B718 for ; Tue, 13 Mar 2001 20:20:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dkelly@grumpy.dyndns.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by grumpy.dyndns.org (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f2E4KSe16527; Tue, 13 Mar 2001 22:20:28 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dkelly@grumpy.dyndns.org) Message-Id: <200103140420.f2E4KSe16527@grumpy.dyndns.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.3.1 01/18/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Joel CARNAT Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: David Kelly Subject: Re: PING filtering In-reply-to: Message from Joel CARNAT of "Tue, 13 Mar 2001 09:11:56 GMT." <20010313091156.042ce93e.joel.carnat@noos.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 22:20:28 -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Joel CARNAT writes: > On Mon, 12 Mar 2001 22:10:42 -0600 > David Kelly wrote: > > > Joel CARNAT writes: > > [...] > > > -3- use syslog to watch who ping's me so that I may tune the rules later. .. > > > # IPFW logging :) > > > !ipfw > > > *.* /var/log/ipfw.log > > > > Good for you for knowing to divert syslogd's output into a file. But > > ipfw also happens to be written to /var/log/security, by default. :-) > > mouarf ... > newbie me :)) > that's good to know... You're doing better than a newbie. You knew syslogd was there and how to redirect its logging information. More than once I've felt like pulling my hair out when something (lately an Ascend Pipeline) is logging via syslogd and I'm trying to figure out how the data was tagged for priority. Such as the priority assigned to ipfw logs. Its not in ipfw or ipfirewall. But happens to be mentioned in syslog(3). Don't know why I thought to look there just now and search for ipfw. What I have learned is when looking for log information don't be afraid to grep /var/log/* as often that will find what you are looking for. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message