[plug] iptables console logging

[Tony Breeds]

On Fri, May 16, 2003 at 01:24:57PM +0800, Ryan wrote:
> "-c 4" for klogd and using 'warn' for the LOG target.  This stops the
> messages but they also stop appearing in /var/log/messages

Revert that change.

> 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?

echo 4 > /proc/sys/kernel/printk
(add the appropriate line to /etc/sysctrl.conf to make it perminant)

Yet another abuse of /proc!


Yours Tony

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