FW: Question about logging.

[Peter Pentchev]

On Wed, May 28, 2003 at 11:10:39PM +0200, Simon L. Nielsen wrote:
> 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.

Erm.. well.. what can I say :)  It's great that there are still people
who actually read the manpages, and not just those like me who go with
vague memories :)  Sorry for the confusion.

G'luck,
Peter

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