Logging problems

[Green Man]

never mind. These things never show themselves until you embarrass
yourself in public... recompiled the kernel and all was well.

<lurk>

might even be able to get some sleep now.

On Fri, 17 Mar 2000, Green Man wrote:

>
>G'day,
>
>Having a few problems with getting logging of packets working using 0.90.4
>and kernel 2.3.48.
>
>I've checked all the stuff i can think of; at the moment i've got a system
>like this:
>
>
>
>Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT)
>target     prot opt source               destination         
>LOG        all  --  anywhere             anywhere           LOG level info 
>
>Chain FORWARD (policy DROP)
>target     prot opt source               destination         
>LOG        all  --  anywhere             anywhere           LOG level info 
>ACCEPT     all  --  anywhere             anywhere           
>
>Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT)
>target     prot opt source               destination         
>LOG        all  --  anywhere             anywhere           LOG level info 
>
>
>in the vain hope of catching something. Syslog has an entry for kern.info,
>but nothing ever gets written to that file. syslogd is running and has
>been restarted to make sure it's reading the syslogd.conf file; file is
>writable. 
>
>So basically, I'm stumped. I know there's a kernel option that can screw
>up netfilter, (fast network switching?)  but i don't think i used it, and
>in any case, that should have buggered up the rest of netfilter also.
>
>Any tips greatly appreciated. The system's going in at 10am, so i've got 6
>hours. :)
>
>mrak
>
>

mrak

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