Guy Marcenac wrote:
> Tom Eastep wrote:
>> Tom Eastep wrote:
>>> This ISN'T a Shorewall problem. Neither Shorewall nor Netfilter have any
>>> control over where the log messages go (or if they go) when the LOG
>>> target is used.
>> And if I had to guess, I would say that there is something wrong with
>> klogd. klogd is the daemon that monitors the kernel's ring buffer and
>> forwards the messages to syslogd. Your test with 'logger' uses the
>> 'syslog()' API which doesn't go through the ring buffer.
>>
> What I do not understand is that info messages from postfix, for 
> instance, are normally logged
> 

Have you restarted klogd? It is KERNEL logging that isn't working so you
need to focus on that path. Testing with logger or noting that postfix
logging works simply validates that the problem is NOT WITH SYSLOGD.

-Tom
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Shoreline,         \ effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.
Washington, USA     \                                 -Herbert Spencer
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