Quoting Christopher S. Swingley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > OK, I'm going crazy here trying to get iptables to log packets to a > file called /var/log/kern.info.
<snip> > What am I missing? And what is the right procedure to clear a log > without causing sysklogd / klogd to choke? I spent another hour trying to get this to work. Here's what did work: * stop sysklogd and klogd * delete the log file * start sysklogd and klogd * stop sysklogd and klogd * chown root:adm, chmod 640 log file * start sysklogd and klogd I'm not sure which of these steps are strictly necessary, but I finally have it working now. . . Chris -- Christopher S. Swingley 930 Koyukuk Drive System / Network Manager University of Alaska Fairbanks IARC -- Frontier Program Fairbanks, AK 99775 phone: 907-474-2689 fax: 907-474-2643 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GNUPG and PGP2 keys at my web site web: http://www.frontier.iarc.uaf.edu/~cswingle
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