Problem with logging on message log file instead of security

Bastien Semene bsemene at cyanide-studio.com
Mon Jun 21 14:58:20 UTC 2010


Update :
The problem seems to be from ipmon.

I sent messages with the logger tool and it correctly redirected them to 
the /var/log/security log file, for the 
security.{info;notice;warning;err} messages.

Le 21/06/2010 15:48, Bastien Semene a écrit :
> Hi,
>
> First, the problem concerns ipmon, but I didn't find its mailing list 
> on the website listing : http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo
> I'm sorry if I missed it, and I will be glad if someone can point me 
> the right mailing list.
>
> The problem is that my firewall logs are written in the 
> /var/log/messages instead of the /var/log/security  log file.
> Ipmon manual says that by default messages should be sent to the 
> security facility.
>
> /etc/rc.conf :
> ipfilter_enable="YES"
> ipfilter_rules="/etc/ipf.rules"
> ipmon_enable="YES"
> ipmon_flags="-Ds"
> ipnat_enable="YES"
> ipnat_rules="/etc/ipnat.rules"
> syslogd_flags = "-s -b localhost"
>
> /etc/syslog.conf :
> *.err;kern.warning;auth.notice;mail.crit                /dev/console
> *.notice;authpriv.none;kern.debug;lpr.info;mail.crit;news.err   
> /var/log/messages
> security.*                                      /var/log/security
> auth.info;authpriv.info                         /var/log/auth.log
> mail.info                                       /var/log/maillog
> lpr.info                                        /var/log/lpd-errs
> ftp.info                                        /var/log/xferlog
> cron.*                                          /var/log/cron
> user.*                                          /var/log/user.log
> *.=debug                                        /var/log/debug.log
> *.emerg                                         *
> !startslip
> *.*                                             /var/log/slip.log
> !ppp
> *.*                                             /var/log/ppp.log
>
> Does someone encountered this problem before ?
>

-- 
Bastien Semene
Administrateur Réseau&  Système

Cyanide Studio - FRANCE



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