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Date:      Fri, 1 Apr 2005 22:32:38 +0200
From:      Danny Pansters <danny@ricin.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ipmon logging
Message-ID:  <200504012232.38210.danny@ricin.com>
In-Reply-To: <040120051850.5087.424D97F3000D1BDB000013DF2205889116CFCFCECC0D9CCD9C0E@comcast.net>
References:  <040120051850.5087.424D97F3000D1BDB000013DF2205889116CFCFCECC0D9CCD9C0E@comcast.net>

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On Friday 01 April 2005 20:50, as2sb3100@comcast.net wrote:
> According to every website I've read so far ipmon uses local0 as the
> facility name.  However, on my FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE-p5 box, it logs to the
> security facility.  The man page (in both 5.2.1 and 5.3) for ipmon, with =
=2Ds
> for logging to syslog says, "The default facility when compiled and
> installed is security".  Can anyone explain this?  I'd like ipmon to log =
to
> a separate file so it doesn't fill up the security log.  I've tried having
> ipmon log directly to a file, and not using syslog, but it stops logging
> when newsyslog rotates the file.  Does anyone have any suggestions on what
> I could or should do?

=46rom /etc/defaults/rc.conf:

ipmon_flags=3D"-Ds"               # typically "-Ds" or "-D /var/log/ipflog"

So use ipmon_flags=3D"-D /var/log/ipmon" or so in your /etc/rc.conf. It's=20
sensible to have a seperate ipf logfile.


HTH,

Dan



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