Re: Opinion about pflog

2016-09-30 Thread lists
Fri, 30 Sep 2016 20:43:02 +0200 Walter Alejandro Iglesias [...] > The point is, I ask myself the same a lot of unix users probably are > asking themselves, should I invest more time in educating myself in > practices that in two days could be declared obsolete? Hi Walter,

Re: Opinion about pflog

2016-09-30 Thread Walter Alejandro Iglesias
To the other people who answer me here, sorry for the delay, I took some time to calm down and not degrade myself to the level of discussion some person here proposed me. Martin Brandenburg, I know what pcap files are, I used them. But, as I said, I'm not an expert, I didn't take in care that

Re: Opinion about pflog

2016-09-29 Thread Walter Alejandro Iglesias
On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 02:36:10PM -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote: > > So, *binary* logs. Sounds familiar to me. And then: > > Your type of person seems familiar to be me. Undeducated *check* > opinioned *check* Contrasting authoritatively without any education > to back it up *check* > > pflog

Re: Opinion about pflog

2016-09-28 Thread Peter N. M. Hansteen
On 09/28/16 22:25, Walter Alejandro Iglesias wrote: > 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

Re: Opinion about pflog

2016-09-28 Thread John Jasen
On 09/28/2016 04:25 PM, Walter Alejandro Iglesias wrote: > 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 ... You can name it pflog.log versus pflog.txt,

Re: Opinion about pflog

2016-09-28 Thread Frederick W. Soucy
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

Re: Opinion about pflog

2016-09-28 Thread Theo de Raadt
> 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

Re: Opinion about pflog

2016-09-28 Thread Martin Brandenburg
On Wed, 28 Sep 2016, 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: > >

Opinion about pflog

2016-09-28 Thread Walter Alejandro Iglesias
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