IPMON log to syslog doesn't work

[Mel]

On Tuesday 26 February 2008 15:25:37 Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 03:09:14PM +0100, Mel wrote:
> > On Tuesday 26 February 2008 14:20:32 Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
> > > I'm trying to troubleshoot my ipfilter firewall, and I cannot get any
> > > log data, i.e. /var/log/ipfilter.log is empty.
> >
> > Does:
> > # logger -p security.notice test
> > put anything in the log?
>
> yes:
>
> # logger -p security.notice test
> # cat /var/log/ipfilter.log
> Feb 26 00:00:00 mech-cluster238 newsyslog[21510]: logfile turned over
> Feb 26 14:17:07 mech-cluster238 mexas: test
> # cat /var/log/security
> Jul 20 10:52:47  newsyslog[463]: logfile first created
> Feb 26 14:17:07 mech-cluster238 mexas: test
> #
>
> so what does this mean?

That syslog works correctly and it's really ipmon. Are you sure it's running? 
How about ipmon -s (without the -D), does that turn up in syslog?


-- 
Mel

Problem with today's modular software: they start with the modules
    and never get to the software part.