FW: Question about logging.

[Simon L. Nielsen]

On 2003.05.28 23:39:54 +0300, Taras Y. NIZHNIK wrote:
> On Wed, 28 May 2003, Simon L. Nielsen wrote:
> > > This would match log entries generated by a userland application named
> > > 'ipfw'.  The ipfw log lines are, however, generated by the *kernel*, and
> > > they would never match this rule.
> > Ehh, I have the following in my syslog.conf, and it works just fine :
> >
> > !ipfw
> > *.*                                             /var/log/ipfw.log
> >
> > I only get lines like :
> > May 20 02:16:28 arthur /kernel: ipfw: 65300 Deny UDP 192.168.3.2:53 192.168.2.3:49239 in via xl0
> > in var/log/ipfw.log
> >
> > I guess it shouldn't work, but it does :-)
> Why do you think it should not?

Actually only bacuse Peter Pentchev said it shouldn't, and I didn't read
the manual page carefully enough before posting.

Thanks for correcting me.

-- 
Simon L. Nielsen
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