[plug] iptables console logging

[Ben Jensz]

dmesg -n 1

man dmesg for explanations like usual :)


/ Ben


Ryan wrote:

>Okay I know this has been covered and google will dish out answers all
>day long about it, but none of them work for me, so ....
>
>How do you stop iptables logging to console on Debian?  Has anyone
>actually done it?
>
>I've tried suggestions such as:
>
>"-c 4" for klogd and using 'warn' for the LOG target.  This stops the
>messages but they also stop appearing in /var/log/messages
>
>Adding kern.debug  /var/log/iptables to syslog.conf and using a 'debug'
>LOG target.  This stops them, but nothing appears in /var/log/iptables
>
>Swearing at it a lot.  This hasn't had any effect bar a few passing
>stares.
>
>Normally I wouldn't care but I'm doing a lot of devel work locally on a
>few boxes and I can't put up with the console flooding.
>
>It doesn't matter how many times I read the syslogd documentation and
>config files, they make less and less sense each time I do.
>
>Anyone got a solution?
>
>*tears out another chunk of hair*
>
>Thanks,
>
>Ryan
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