Re: ipfilter question



On 12/13/05, Elmer Rivera <elmer.rivera@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> hello,

Hello,

>
> my freebsd box is already setup and followed some of the docs on
> setting up the firewall using ipfilter. question on logging.
>
> setup /var/log/ipfilter.log as my log file.

How/where did you set this up?

> modified syslog.conf.

How did you modified this?

> its working now unfortunately, its loggin on
> that file AND to my messages log file. is it possible to log ipfilter
> log only to my log file?

Yes, it is possible.

Here's my setup:

/etc/rc.conf
ipmon_enable="YES"
ipmon_flags="-Dns"

/etc/syslog.conf
security.* /var/log/ipfilter.log


Make sure you don't have any other security.* facility specified in
/etc/syslog.conf

>
> thanks
> --
> Elmer Rivera, http://www.vizcayano.com, http://youand.i.ph
>

Hope this helps,

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