Must say I agree with Nick Rundy's comments on 2012-01-25 (above).
We do need a way to track what application is initiating network
traffic, that can (or is) logged to the syslog.
Can we get this progressed to the kernel and iptables teams as a feature
request.
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To be clear, the kernel is doing the logging, not iptables. Iptables
configures netfilter, the part of the kernel that does all this.
That said, the pid is not logged by the kernel so there is nothing to
cross-reference in /proc (which is all netstat is doing). Eg:
Jan 26 15:36:57 localhost
@Jamie Strandboge, is there anything that can be done to get this
capability in Ubuntu? Perhaps some other solution can be created or put
on the planning board? A lot of people want to have a log of the
outgoing internet connections of applications. Unless users are willing
to sit and stare at the
nethogs and netstat can connect pids to program names, so in theory someone
could add this functionality to iptables. You could also setup a cron job to
regularly log netstat output for all network connections to a file. For
example, the following command ran as root will timestamp and log
the log viewer only displays system logs, it's not the software
recording those
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It isn't the syslogd's responsibility to do a lookup of the pid, it is
the application and the application is the one specifying the pid
anyway.
Based on the example given, it sounds like what is desired is for the
firewall to log the pid of the application that generated the request.
This is the
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Status: New = Confirmed
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