Hey Adam! I was right about to reply to that message, but you were faster at reposting my old reply to it! LOL it's great fun seeing your messages recycled :) Hope it helped (again) :) Miquel
On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 09:55:28PM +1200, Adam Warner wrote: > This looks extremely fruitful. If it DOESN"T work I'll let the list know: > http://lists.debian.org/debian-user-0105/msg00052.html > > ---Begin Quote--- > > Hi there! > Sorry to bring up such an old threat, but I didn't see any solutions posted, > and I just found the cause. > > The problem was ipchains (or iptables) printing messages on the console no > matter how much you tried to make it shut up :) Well, I had the problem also > with smbmount. > > Anyway, the problem was that klogd is displaying on the console all the > messages with any priority greater than debug (7) (see man klogd). To keep > it from doing that, load it with "klogd -c 5" for example. That will log > only errors or highr priorities and will prevent the flooding! > > If you use debian, edit /etc/init.d/klogd and edit the line where it says: > KLOGD="" > to be > KLOGD="-c 4" > > Have fun! > Miquel > > ---End Quote--- > > And the follow up post was: > > ---Begin Quote--- > Thank you, thank you. > > I just checked to see if you had filed a bug report and found that the bug > (and the fix) had been filed 11 days ago. > > One good thing about this bug is that all those console messages about my > ipchains REJECTs and DENYs resulted in a better firewall. > > But why did it affect (apparently) only a handful of people? > > Lindsay > > ---End Quote--- > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Adam Warner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, 14 June 2001 7:33 p.m. > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: iptables logging to console (all basic solutions have failed) > > Hi all, > > I'm running Debian testing with a custom compiled 2.4.5 kernel. Since I've > enabling logging with my iptables rules (at info and warn levels) every > single log is being output to the current console. > > At no point in /etc/syslog.conf do I have any logging to /dev/console. And > attempts to log to, say, /dev/tty8 work but continue to log to the current > console. > > Yes, I used apt-get install klogd after searching archives and finding that > this should be installed (I initially started a while ago with a floppy > install of 2.2r3). > > I've tried rebooting, restarting syskogd and klogd and finding messages in > the archives that go along the line of "yeah, this appears to be happening > to some people." > > As you can imagine, it's very easy for iptables logs to flood the console in > a second. > > Thanks, > Adam > > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
