Hello Tom, I absolutly agree, LEAF is using ulogd for shorewall logging and the /var/log/shorewall.log logfile is created in the ulogd package. So I guess Rob's ulogd package is corrupted.
Eric > > Let me clarify. > > > 1) /sbin/shorewall verifies that LOGFILE is set to an existing file each > time that it is run. That has always been the case. The purpose of the > LOGFILE > setting is so that /sbin/shorewall knows where to find the log when > processing "show log", "logwatch" and "dump" commands. > > 2) The LOGFILE setting DOES NOT DETERMINE WHERE LOG MESSAGES GO. > > > 3) As released from shorewall.net, the setting of LOGFILE is > LOGFILE=/var/log/messages. > > > 4) Rob is complaining that /var/log/shorewall.log doesn't exist. Since > that is not the default setting, I can only conclude that > /var/log/shorewall.log is a > Leaf default setting so I further conclude that something in Leaf is > expected to create the file. > > 4) Under no circumstance does Shorewall EVER create the file named in > LOGFILE. > > > So if Rob is logging Shorewall messages to some other log then he should > change the setting of LOGFILE. > > -Tom > -- > Tom Eastep \ Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool > Shoreline, \ http://shorewall.net > Washington USA \ [EMAIL PROTECTED] > PGP Public Key \ https://lists.shorewall.net/teastep.pgp.key > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > leaf-user mailing list: [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user > Support Request -- http://leaf-project.org/ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user Support Request -- http://leaf-project.org/
