Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2002 08:58:55 -0800 From: "Drew Tomlinson" <drew@mykitchentable.net> To: "David Dooley" <dpd@raffles-it.com>, <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Using syslog to seperate out log messages Message-ID: <009b01c2b0ed$e75f10a0$0301a8c0@bigdaddy> References: <20021231001837.2d75937b.dpd@raffles-it.com>
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----- Original Message ----- From: "David Dooley" dpd@raffles-it.com To: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Monday, December 30, 2002 4:18 PM Subject: Using syslog to seperate out log messages > Hi, > > I have a small problem, well more of an annoyance than anything, but I was > > hoping that someone would be able to solve it for me. > I have an Internet connection from Demon in the UK and I am using a D-Link > DSL-300G+ ADSL modem to connect via. This device uses DHCP to request the > network configuration from Demon and then offers it via DHCP to my firewall > system. This all work fine and I am now in the process of securing the link > with ipfw. > > Now it would appear the the D-Link box advertises the connection information > to the firewall every 30 seconds or so with the following entries > > Dec 31 00:07:21 gate dhclient: New Network Number: 62.49.18.0 > Dec 31 00:07:21 gate dhclient: New Broadcast Address: 62.49.18.255 > Dec 31 00:07:50 gate dhclient: New Network Number: 62.49.18.0 > Dec 31 00:07:50 gate dhclient: New Broadcast Address: 62.49.18.255 > Dec 31 00:08:19 gate dhclient: New Network Number: 62.49.18.0 > Dec 31 00:08:19 gate dhclient: New Broadcast Address: 62.49.18.255 > > as you can see I get quite a lot of this rubbish in the 'messages' file and I > would like to move all the dhclient traffic into another log file that I can > truncate/remove/ignore on a regular basis. > > When I try and direct the above entries with a line like > > !+dhclient > *.* /var/log/dhclient.log > or > !dhclient > *.* /var/log/dhclient.log > or > !-dhclient > *.* /var/log/dhclient.log > The above traffic still occurs but now I get the following additional messages > every 30 seconds or so in the new file > > Dec 31 00:06:53 gate dhclient: DHCPREQUEST on fxp0 to 62.49.18.138 port 67 > Dec 31 00:06:53 gate dhclient: DHCPACK from 62.49.18.138 > Dec 31 00:06:53 gate dhclient: New Network Number: 62.49.18.0 > Dec 31 00:06:53 gate dhclient: New Broadcast Address: 62.49.18.255 > Dec 31 00:06:53 gate dhclient: bound to 62.49.18.137 -- renewal in 28 seconds. > > Can any one tell me how to stop these messages in the 'messages' file? I'm no expert but I think the messages may be coming from the 'user' facility. I have a router that I capture log messages from and had to put 'user.none' in the line for /var/log/messages to get rid of the traffic. Then I had a line further down that grabbed all messages from my router and directed them to another file. HTH, Drew > > Thanks for your time > > David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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