ipfw logging issue

Eugene Grosbein eugen at grosbein.net
Wed Jan 15 09:10:22 UTC 2020


15.01.2020 7:31, Michael Wayne wrote:

> Posted on the forums, did not get a response so trying here.
> 
> Running 12.1-RELEASE-p1
> 
> I put the following into syslog.conf, which worked on prior releases:
> 
> # Log ipfw messages without syncing after every message.
> !ipfw
> *.*                                     -/var/log/ipfw.log
> 
> 
> While I continue to see ipfw messages logged to /var/log/security,
> they are not being written to /var/log/ipfw.log. Removing the "-"
> has no effect. What changed?
> 
> Is it just broken?

They always were "security.info" messages. You need not complicating things, just do:

security.info -/var/log/ipfw.log



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