nfcapd is a daemon, and therefore logs to syslog LOG_DAEMON.
- Peter
On 12/7/11 9:43, Nikolaos Milas wrote:
> Hello, I've posted the following message a week ago, but I got no replies.
>
> Any advice please?
>
> Thanks,
> Nick
>
> On 1/12/2011 2:31 μμ, Nikolaos Milas wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> This is my first post to this list, so I should start by thanking all
>> those who have offered this very valuable piece of software
>> (nfsen/nfdump) to the community.
>>
>> We have been running nfsen/nfdump (1.3.5 and 1.6.4 respectively) on
>> CentOS 5.7 (x86_64) for a few weeks now, and things are running
>> smoothly. We are capturing traffic on two Cisco routers.
>>
>> We have configured local3 for nfsen syslog-based logging and it works,
>> by storing messages in /var/log/nfsen.log.
>>
>> However, every five minutes (when data collection occurs), we see in
>> /var/log/messages some logging messages by nfcapd. Here is an example:
>>
>> Dec 1 14:15:00 nfbox nfcapd[12594]: Ident: 'pen' Flows: 36931, Packets:
>> 573821, Bytes: 398731871, Sequence Errors: 100, Bad Packets: 0
>> Dec 1 14:15:00 nfboxnfcapd[12594]: Ident: 'thi' Flows: 14673, Packets:
>> 557588, Bytes: 325782024, Sequence Errors: 70, Bad Packets: 0
>> Dec 1 14:15:00 nfboxnfcapd[12594]: Total ignored packets: 0
>>
>> How can we configure nfsen to *not* send nfcapd messages to
>> /var/log/messages? Do we need to configure nfcapd logging options
>> separately (and how)?
>>
>> We would like to keep these messages in /var/log/nfsen.log as well.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Nick
>
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