Re: FW: Question about logging.

From: Peter Pentchev (roam_at_ringlet.net)
Date: 05/29/03

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    Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 09:40:23 +0300
To: "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon@nitro.dk>

    On Wed, May 28, 2003 at 11:10:39PM +0200, Simon L. Nielsen wrote:
    > On 2003.05.28 23:39:54 +0300, Taras Y. NIZHNIK wrote:
    > > On Wed, 28 May 2003, Simon L. Nielsen wrote:
    > > > > This would match log entries generated by a userland application named
    > > > > 'ipfw'. The ipfw log lines are, however, generated by the *kernel*, and
    > > > > they would never match this rule.
    > > > Ehh, I have the following in my syslog.conf, and it works just fine :
    > > >
    > > > !ipfw
    > > > *.* /var/log/ipfw.log
    > > >
    > > > I only get lines like :
    > > > May 20 02:16:28 arthur /kernel: ipfw: 65300 Deny UDP 192.168.3.2:53 192.168.2.3:49239 in via xl0
    > > > in var/log/ipfw.log
    > > >
    > > > I guess it shouldn't work, but it does :-)
    > > Why do you think it should not?
    >
    > Actually only bacuse Peter Pentchev said it shouldn't, and I didn't read
    > the manual page carefully enough before posting.
    >
    > Thanks for correcting me.

    Erm.. well.. what can I say :) It's great that there are still people
    who actually read the manpages, and not just those like me who go with
    vague memories :) Sorry for the confusion.

    G'luck,
    Peter 

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