Hii, I was wandering why iptables is NOT logging to my /var/log/messages/ NMAPS stealth port scans or when i telnet any port?. Here are what the first part of my rules look like. How can u add some rules soo i can see (LOG) all ports scans or connection attemps on my machine???? iptables 1.2.7 kernel 2.4.19 iptables --flush iptables -t nat --flush iptables -t mangle --flush iptables -A INPUT -i lo -j ACEPT iptables -A OUTPUT -o lo -j ACCEPT # I tryed to put in a logging rule here and it didnt log the port scan! iptables -A INPUT -i eth0 -p tcp \ --dport 111 -j LOG-prefix "DROP sunrpc: " iptables --policy INPUT DROP iptables --policy FORWARD DROP iptables --policy OUTPUT ACCEPT # I tryed a LOG Policy here too like this! iptables -i INPUT -p tcp -j LOG --log-prefix "log-tcp-test: " iptables -A INPUT -m state --state ESTABLSIHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT iptables -A FOWARD -m state --state ESTABLSIHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT iptables -A OUTPUT -m state --state ESTABLSIHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT And then after this i have all stuff that is allowed on my machine like DNS, DHCP, and my forwarding rules! __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Y! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your web site http://webhosting.yahoo.com/