Tom Eastep wrote: > Donald wrote: >> My apologies, >> >> I should have clarified. Shorewall starts w/out any issue. When doing >> a shorewall dump, I get the error message: /var/log/shorewall.log does >> not exist. > > The Guidelines mention the proper setting of LOGFILE before collecting > the dump.
Since you are obviously having a bad day, let me see if I can make this clear. Shorewall has no control over where Netfilter log messages go. If you use the default logging setup in the sample configurations (e.g., you use level 'info' everywhere), then the destination of the log messages is wherever your logging daemon sends them. This is explained in http://www.shorewall.net/shorewall_logging.html. Given that Shorewall can't predict where the messages are written, the user must give Shorewall that information; that is the purpose of the LOGFILE setting in shorewall.conf. Again -- LOGFILE doesn't determine where messages are logged; it tells /sbin/shorewall where to find them. Log messages are a key debugging aid for you and for us. So the 'shorewall dump' command includes them. Clearly if LOGFILE points to a non-existant file, the dump output won't contain any log messages. That's why the error message that you saw is generated. -Tom -- Tom Eastep \ When I die, I want to go like my Grandfather who Shoreline, \ died peacefully in his sleep. Not screaming like Washington, USA \ all of the passengers in his car http://shorewall.net \________________________________________________
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