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Date:      Thu, 13 Nov 1997 10:43:51 -0800 (PST)
From:      Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>
To:        pm@ns.online.samara.ru (Postmaster)
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ipfw and syslog.conf
Message-ID:  <199711131843.KAA19571@bubba.whistle.com>
In-Reply-To: <AAKDrQqyC0@ns.online.samara.ru> from Postmaster at "Nov 13, 97 07:21:56 pm"

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Postmaster writes:
> I insert in syslog.conf next strings
> 
> !ipfw
> *.*     /var/log/ipfw.log
> 
> but all ipfw output direct to console
> What I must doing that the ipfw output put to ipfw.log

What appears on the console is determined by a different line
in /etc/syslog.conf (namely, the one that says "/dev/console").
Take a look at the syslog.conf(5) man page and compare with
the entries in your /etc/syslog.conf to see if the behavior
you're seeing makes sense.

-Archie

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