On 2007-01-17 15:24, Greg Wallace wrote: > Well, I've done some more digging on this problem and, though I have found > out some things, I am still no closer to solving the problem than before. > > 1) The huge amount of lines in /var/log/messages seems to be unrelated to > why I'm getting an fsck every time I boot. There are hundreds of lines in > there that look like this one -- > > Linux kernel: SFW2-IN-ACC-RELATED IN eth0 > OUT=MAC=00:08:74:24:85:82:00:04:5A:0f:18:07:08:00 SRC=128.61.111.11 > DST=192.168.1.102 LEN=529 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=238936 WINDOW=1716 > RES=0x00 ACK FIN URGP=0 OPT (long hex number here) >
This is firewall logging. Why it is in /var/log/messages is a mystery, because (at least in 9.3) the syslog-ng config file is written to write all firewall log entries to a separate file. Possibly you are still using the old syslog, which is pretty brain dead and dumps everything from the kernel into /var/log/messages. If so, I suggest you dump it and install syslog-ng instead. -- The best way to accelerate a computer running Windows is at 9.81 m/s² -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
