On Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 11:26:34AM -0500, Val Schmidt wrote:
 > This is probably simple and is probably more of a syslog question than
 > iptables, but any help would be appreciated.
 > 
 > I'd like to write iptables logs to a separate file than normal kernel
 > messages.  
 > 
 > Since other kernal messages are already logged at the info level and
 > above to /var/log/messages, the only solution I can see is to log
 > firewall logs at the debug level to a separate file.  But that'll create
 > a lot of unwanted reproduced kernel messages in the firewall logs.
 > 
 > How does the rest of the world do this?

I dont' know either how to log iptables messages on separate file. I guess it's
not posible unless there is another level in syslogd specially for iptables. But
maybe I'm wrong here.

Anyway, you can start any log message with a delimiter: "[FIREWALL]" and 
then grep the standard syslogd file for this string with a different output, 
say iptables.log
(use the --log-prefix)

That's the simpliest way I know

Hope to be of any help!

 > 
 > Val Schmidt
 > Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory  
 > 
 > 
 > 
 > 
 > 

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