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Re: ipfw and logging

Subject: Re: ipfw and logging
From: Andrew Nielsen <email@hidden>
Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2001 17:41:23 +0800

At 07:56 -0700 29/06/2001, Creed Erickson wrote:

At 6:07 PM +0800 6/29/01, Andrew Nielsen wrote:
Can anyone tell me how to get ipfw to actually log anything?

I've read that the Mac OS X kernel has been compiled with options IPFIREWALL_VERBOSE to support logging, but I can't get anything at all logged from ipfw.

Clearly I'm missing something obvious...
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Caveat: I'm guessing here and could be off-base...

Perhaps you haven't configured syslog to tell it where to put the records generated by ipfw? You probably need a /etc/syslog.conf line something like:

ipfw.* /var/log/firewall.log

You'll need to HUP syslogd for such a change to take effect.

Thanks for the suggestion. I tried it, and the log reports "syslogd: unknown facility name 'ipfw'". Hmm.
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Andrew Nielsen <mailto:email@hidden>
Starfish Technologies Pty Ltd <http://www.starfish.net.au/>
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