On 09/28/2016 03:25 PM, Walter Alejandro Iglesias wrote:
I know complaining is useless. Forgive me this time.
I'm about to run my own web server using OpenBSD. I'm giving my first
steps with pf. I was very enthusiastic till I got to this point:
https://www.openbsd.org/faq/pf/logging.html
It says:
The log file written by pflogd is in binary format and cannot be
read using a text editor.
So, *binary* logs. Sounds familiar to me. And then:
In many situations it is desirable to have the firewall logs available
in ASCII format
And this "uncommon" practice among unix system administrators (sarcasm),
needs a "workaround". You end with a file with a curious termination:
Create the file /var/log/pflog.txt ...
I must confess I'm one among those "run to the hills" paranoids. I'm
not an expert, perhaps I'm judging pflog wrong but, anyway, I still
prefer the traditional way, using cat, grep and tail.
if by *familiar* you are implying systemd than just stop. if you're that
worried about binary logs you should have jumped ship from unix and
unix-like systems decades ago. man utmp(5).
