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Date:      Sun, 18 Feb 2001 00:19:01 -0800
From:      "Crist J. Clark" <cjclark@reflexnet.net>
To:        Tony Wells <awells@journalstar.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: IPFirewall & syslogd
Message-ID:  <20010218001901.F62368@rfx-216-196-73-168.users.reflex>
In-Reply-To: <3A8D846F.8824EEB9@journalstar.com>; from awells@journalstar.com on Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 01:50:07PM -0600
References:  <3A8D846F.8824EEB9@journalstar.com>

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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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