On Monday 02 March 2009, Matthew Flaschen wrote: >Gene Heskett wrote: >> This, after removing the appropriate # comments, and restarting rsyslog >> seems to have worked, however the messages are being intermixed with this >> machines messages. They are marked as coming from the 'router', I presume >> by a gethostbynumber call someplace. >> >> This gives a nice trigger if I can figure out how to use it: > >I think it's something like: >:hostname, isequal, "router" > >*.* /var/log/DD_WRT_router.log > I tried that, and it duplicated the host machines log to the target. :) So I'm now trying: :msg, contains, "router" /var/log/dd-wrt/router.log And the router log isn't showing anything. messages is now normal. If I put it on two lines, it fussed on the restart because there was a line without an action. Unforch, the attack from a chinese site seems to have stopped, I sent the abuse address a message about 3 hours ago as the attack had been going on for several hours at about 1-2 second intervals. >It may be exactly that, but I haven't tested so I won't say that. > >See >http://www.rsyslog.com/index.php?module=Static_Docs&func=view&f=/rsyslog_con >f.html, http://www.rsyslog.com/doc-rsyslog_conf_filter.html, >http://www.rsyslog.com/doc-property_replacer.html, >http://www.rsyslog.com/doc-rsyslog_conf_actions.html, and >http://wiki.rsyslog.com/index.php/LighttpdVhostErrorlogs > >> I would like to put those in their own log. Is that possible? > >Yes. > >>> which appears to be what you have to uncomment to receive messages. >>> Do you want to receive TCP or UDP? >> >> Not sure, so I enabled both. :) > >That will slow it down, and rsyslog is speed-critical (to ensure you >don't miss any logs). > >>> Try to understand if data is coming to your machine with >>> >>> tcpdump -i eth0 -n -n >> >> That was very informative, the major portion of the net traffic here is >> being generated by arp, scanning the local subnet asking whohas, getting >> to .254 and resuming at 1. That was so noisy if I saw anything from the >> router it scrolled offscreen so fast I couldn't read it. > >Try: > >tcpdump -i eth0 -n -n | grep "\.514" > >Or you could grep based on your router's IP. > >> That could be >> turned off because I use host files here for the majority of my stuff. > >That's not right. ARP resolves IPs to MAC addresses. It doesn't matter >if you never transmit hostnames across the network. > >> AFAIKT from the services config there is no arp daemon running. > >Oh, ARP is running. > Is it an absolute requirement? If not, how to stop it? >Matt Flaschen Thanks Matt. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) A stitch in time saves nine. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines