From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "John A. Sullivan III" Subject: RE: help needed: clogged console Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2004 11:00:22 -0500 Sender: netfilter-admin@lists.netfilter.org Message-ID: <1073059221.2993.10.camel@jasiiitosh.nexusmgmt.com> References: <7A3B4AA360FDEF448F3390421FC8D731012C6B06@coxhpexg.coxhp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <7A3B4AA360FDEF448F3390421FC8D731012C6B06@coxhpexg.coxhp.com> Errors-To: netfilter-admin@lists.netfilter.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: bmcdowell@coxhealthplans.com Cc: orlowscy@hotpop.com, shrike-list@redhat.com, redhat-list@redhat.com, netfilter@lists.netfilter.org On Fri, 2004-01-02 at 10:15, bmcdowell@coxhealthplans.com wrote: > Search for 'dmesg -n 1' - I think that's what you're after. > > > Bob > > -----Original Message----- > From: netfilter-admin@lists.netfilter.org > [mailto:netfilter-admin@lists.netfilter.org]On Behalf Of Slawomir > Orlowski > Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2003 12:32 PM > To: shrike-list@redhat.com; redhat-list@redhat.com > Cc: netfilter@lists.netfilter.org > Subject: help needed: clogged console > > > Hello, > > I have Linux RH 9.0 configured as filtering firewall, and getting a lot of > (kernel, iptables) messages on active consoles. > I have thought that putting in /etc/syslog.conf: > > # *.kern /dev/console > kern.* /var/log/kernel > kern.* /dev/tty8 > > would free me from this, but it did not. > How can I force kernel message to appear only in /var/log/kernel log and on > tty8 only? > > Best Regards > I hope that somebody will be able to help me. > When I'm getting a lot of dropped packages it is not possible even to log. > > Slawomir Orlowski I've been really confused by this issue. I am also running iptables on RedHat 9.0. /etc/syslog.conf shows nothing being logged to the console. Yet, ever since applying the netfilter patch-o-matic tcp-window patch, all of its messages appear on my console. The netfilter mail lists say this is a misconfiguration of syslog but it sure looks correctly configured to me. No other iptables messages go to the console - just the tcp-window messages. How do I stop them!!! Thanks - John -- John A. Sullivan III Chief Technology Officer Nexus Management +1 207-985-7880 john.sullivan@nexusmgmt.com --- If you are interested in helping to develop a GPL enterprise class VPN/Firewall/Security device management console, please visit http://iscs.sourceforge.net