Re: ipfw won't log anything?

From: Wes Groleau (groleau+news_at_freeshell.org)
Date: 02/09/04 

Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2004 00:27:02 -0500

Eirik Seim wrote:

> On Sat, 07 Feb 2004 22:44:10 -0500, Wes Groleau wrote:
>> Before, I would find bad guys' traces with
>>
>> grep ipfw /var/log/system.log
>>
>> Now that command returns nothing, but I notice the existence
>> of a /var/log/ipfw.log which is always empty.
>
> Do you (still) have the option IPFIREWALL_VERBOSE in your kernel?
> What does 'sysctl net.inet.ip.fw.verbose' return?

That was it.

sudo sysctl net.inet.ip.fw.verbose = 1

returned that it was zero and turned it on.
Upgrades are great, but I wish they would make
improvements, and stop changing things just to be changing them.

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