On Wed, 20 Jul 2011, cbulist@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> To: centos@xxxxxxxxxx
> From: "cbulist@xxxxxxxxx" <cbulist@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Iptables - flooding console
>
> Hi,
>
> We are trying to track some specific rules using LOG as target.
> Everything is working well but the problem is that iptables is flooding
> the console with LOG messages.
> We tried --log level 4 on iptables rules but it didn't work.
> We fixed the problem changing KLOGD_OPTIONS value in
> /etc/sysconfig/syslog to:
> KLOG_OPTIONS="-c 4"
>
> Is it the best option or we are missing something?
>
> Thanks in advance
I had this problem as well. The firewall logs were being
sent (tailed/tee'd ?) to the console, which is a pain if you
are using mc or any other console application.
To fix it on Centos 5.5/6 I just added the following
to the top of the /etc/syslog.conf file.
Deleted these lines as not in use:
# Log all kernel messages to the console.
# Logging much else clutters up the screen.
#kern.* /dev/console
Replaced with:
# Log all firewall messages to a file.
kern.=debug /var/log/firewall-log
Obviously you need to make sure the firewall log file
exists
-rw-r--r-- keith users 39039 Jul 20 15:24 firewall-log
Kind Regards,
Keith Roberts
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