I am an idiot.. sorry.. The log-level covers items like emerg alert crit err warning notice info debug It should be use something like info and then put a line in syslog.conf for kern.info /var/log/iptables My apologies for the early morning stupidity. On Wed, 2003-09-10 at 09:11, Jeffrey Laramie wrote: > > Stephen Smoogen wrote: > > You can change the log level with the --log-level addtion to any -j LOG > > lines > > > > LOG_LEVEL="local1" > > -j LOG --log-level ${LOG_LEVEL} --log-prefix " Blah " > > > > Then have local1 in /etc/syslog.conf go to /var/log/iptables.log > > > > I also wanted to do this, so I tried it and iptables balked with: > > iptables v1.2.7a: log-level 'local1' unknown > > I checked my syslog.h file and found that 'local1' was an alias for > the LOG_LOCAL1 facility and not defined as a priority (log level). > Suggestions? > > Jeff -- Stephen John Smoogen smoogen@xxxxxxxx Los Alamos National Labrador CCN-5 Sched 5/40 PH: 4-0645 (note new #) Ta-03 SM-1498 MailStop B255 DP 10S Los Alamos, NM 87545 -- So shines a good deed in a weary world. = Willy Wonka --