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11-20-2004, 08:01 AM
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Registered: Oct 2003
Location: Kentucky, USA
Distribution: Debian "SID"
Posts: 110
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Firewall logs in logs and terminal...
I have Firestarter installed and the logs generated are clogging both the terminals as well as the log files. It's especially troubling when I'm in a tty trying to do something and all at once the output of Firestarter/iptables shows up on the command line!! It's not an issue when I'm in a terminal in X...
Is there anything I can do to eliminate this?
Thanks in advance!
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11-20-2004, 09:19 AM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Nov 2004
Location: Barcelona (ES) & London (GB)
Distribution: Slackware-current
Posts: 15
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Comment out the appropriate console or tty line of /etc/syslog.conf ?
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11-20-2004, 04:54 PM
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Member
Registered: Oct 2003
Location: Kentucky, USA
Distribution: Debian "SID"
Posts: 110
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Firewall logs....
Quote:
Originally posted by gug
Comment out the appropriate console or tty line of /etc/syslog.conf ?
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I just spend a little time looking at that (and studying the man page), but I can find nothing in the configuration file that is directing the output to the console. This is the one that I'm bugged with the most. The only tty, /dev/tty8 is commented out in /ect/syslog.conf... It would also appear that the output is "only" being directed to tty1...
Thanks for the idea and I will explore it further.
Do you have any thoughts on why the output is going to "all" the tty's (except for the xconsole terminal windows???)?
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11-20-2004, 05:06 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Nov 2004
Location: Barcelona (ES) & London (GB)
Distribution: Slackware-current
Posts: 15
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I'm out of ideas for the moment then.
Any Debian users reading who can see why syslog output should be going to all ttys?
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11-20-2004, 05:55 PM
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Member
Registered: Oct 2003
Location: Kentucky, USA
Distribution: Debian "SID"
Posts: 110
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Re: Firewall logs....
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Originally posted by robbow52
I just spend a little time looking at that (and studying the man page), but I can find nothing in the configuration file that is directing the output to the console. This is the one that I'm bugged with the most. The only tty, /dev/tty8 is commented out in /ect/syslog.conf... It would also appear that the output is "only" being directed to tty1...
Thanks for the idea and I will explore it further.
Do you have any thoughts on why the output is going to "all" the tty's (except for the xconsole terminal windows???)?
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I wanted to edit my earlier post above (I hit the send button too quickly!). The output appears to only be directed to tty1.
Any thoughts or ideas would be appreciated!
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11-20-2004, 07:07 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Nov 2004
Location: Barcelona (ES) & London (GB)
Distribution: Slackware-current
Posts: 15
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is it ALL syslog output you are seeing on tty1 or just firestarter/iptables log?
(if you've got logger installed, try "logger hello world")
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11-20-2004, 07:44 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Mar 2004
Distribution: Debian GNU/kFreeBSD
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There's a utility called "ulogd" that redirects firewall log to a separate file. See my post in macondo's sticky thread "Debian Configuration Post-Install" (first page) where I describe how to use ulogd with FireHOL firewall. I don't use Firestarter, but if you discover how to make ulogd work with Firestarter, please post it here for us to read. 
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11-20-2004, 08:13 PM
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Member
Registered: Oct 2003
Location: Kentucky, USA
Distribution: Debian "SID"
Posts: 110
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Quote:
Originally posted by Dead Parrot
There's a utility called "ulogd" that redirects firewall log to a separate file. See my post in macondo's sticky thread "Debian Configuration Post-Install" (first page) where I describe how to use ulogd with FireHOL firewall. I don't use Firestarter, but if you discover how to make ulogd work with Firestarter, please post it here for us to read.
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I just read your post in the thread and I will look into ulogd. It sounds like just what I need.
I will post if I find a solution!
Thanks again!
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