I am a newbie to Linux, and have been trying to figure out how to set the log file names for the Firewall, and how I can have several different log files that log different things. After a google search, I found that the Linux Firewall uses IPTables, and I found that there is a log for IPTables.

How can I get several different log files with IPTables and set the log file names?

So if I understand you correctly you want say a Log for Incoming, and Outgoing, or more like, Log for Information, Warnings, and Attacks.

Yeah, a Firewall log. How to set the log file name and how to have several different log files to use for the Firewall?

Have a read on the subject at http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/force-...-log-file.html
It should answer the question

Great link but I think (could be completly wrong) but the OP wants to log certain events to two different logs. Like normal events to say a log called info.log and say intrusion messages to say a intrusion.log. But as I said I could be really off on what he is requesting.

Yeah, that helps. Thanks for the link to it.


How does it know to log the Firewall stuff into "/var/log/iptables.log" and can I add a couple of different files such as "/var/log/iplog1.log" "/var/log/iplog2.log" and "/var/log/iplog3.log"? It does not explain how to do that! And, it does not explain what name I can use for the log? And it does not explain how to tell IPTables what log files I want it to use, so how does it know to use the new log files?

Also, I could not find out about the log levels option and how to use it. The man page says to look at "syslog.conf(8)" and I can not find anything about log levels. There is no: man 8 syslog.conf???

Is there a commnad line to get your Firewall log level?