----- Original Message ----- From: "Ronny Adsetts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Paul Dossett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, May 25, 2001 2:27 AM Subject: RE: Problem with logging firewall packets
> > Okay, I'm *really* embarrassed about this, but I can't get syslog to log > > firewall packets to a logfile - it insists on sending them to my Debian > > box's console. I've checked the /etc/syslog.conf file and there's no > > mention of a console there at all, so what am I doing wrong? The crappy > > ipchains test script I've rigged is working, a grc.com scan is being > blocked > > in all the right ways, but I just can't get the logs on magnetic media... > > what really simple, obvious, even-a-redheaded-stepchild-could-work-it-out > > step am I missing? > > Probably klogd is missing. try: > > # apt-get update && apt-get install klogd It was installed, but the kicker was that something seemed to be wrong with the init script, the syslogd and klogd daemons weren't restarting when I executed their scripts, so the changes I made in the syslog.conf file were being ignored. Manually killing the processes and restarting them worked, and logging is back... thanks all! Hopefully I can return the favour for some *other* foolish newbie... ;) ppp