I just re-read res. 1988 on the nokia site and iut states that you'll always get a
logswitch failed if the PFM is configured to log to another machine, eg. the
management server. [which mine is - apologies]
regards
"Dameon D. Welch-Abernathy" wrote:
> > I have never been able to get fw logswitch to work on my Nokia IP440s.
> > It works fine on the NT management machine. The output I get is:
> > "Nokia[admin]# fw logswitch
> > Trying to switch logfile to 05Jul2000-14:41:11.log
> >
> > Log switch failed,"
> >
> > I checked the rights and they are fine (i even chmod'd them to 777 to be
> > sure and still no result). I am logged in as Admin when trying to do
> > this. Has anyone had such problems?
>
> You typically don't logswitch a firewall module, but it should work when you
> do it. One time, I traced this down to FireWall-1 not believing the request
> came from localhost. Sometimes you have to add the following line to the top
> of $FWDIR/conf/control.map:
>
> 127.0.0.1: */none
>
> You can also try to add all the IP addresses of the firewall module.
>
> You can also issue the command from an NT management console to perform the
> logswitch on the IP440s:
>
> fw logswitch -h firewall
>
> -- PhoneBoy
>
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