Re: iptables logging

From: Dave Millen (postmaster_at_[127.0.0.1)
Date: 03/26/04 

Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 13:57:17 +0000

On Fri, 26 Mar 2004 13:33:11 +0100, jack wrote:

> Dave Millen wrote:
>> I expected this to log to /var/log/messages, but nothing seems to be
>> showing up. Have I got the syntax wrong, or does the logging go
>> elsewhere? I would have expected some conection attempts since I
>> inserted the LOG lines.
>
> See the "--log-level" option, and man syslog.conf. This way, You can
> specify where the logs go.
>

Thanks,

The '--log-level' option sorted things out fine. I'm surprised that it
doesn't default to (say) log-level 1 if omitted though.

Regards,
Dave

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