Christoffer Hall-Frederiksen wrote:

> I have the following problem. I have a bunch of linux boxes who act as
> firewalls on different networks, but I have a small problem. The machines 
> use syslog to log to a central loghost. This is not a problem, I off course 
> just use *.* @loghost in syslog.conf. 
> 
> However since ipchains uses printk to log, the facility of all messages 
> are "kern". I can then catch them in syslog.conf with somthing lige 
> kern.* ...... But if you are paranoid enough (and I just might be :-), 
> then a lot of messages occur and I would like to redirect these syslog 
> messages to "local?.*" instead of "kern.*". Since they fill up logs that 
> contain kern information from quite a few hotst and I would like to filter 
> out messages from the firewall machines!
> 
> Is there any way you can do this in a nice way?

Send kern.info messages to a FIFO, and attach the other end to a
program which sorts them into appropriate files.

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Glynn Clements <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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