Re: way to flush /var/log/message

Bill Davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx> · Tue, 22 May 2012 16:01:51 -0400

Paul Allen Newell wrote:

On 5/21/2012 5:48 AM, Tim wrote:

On Sun, 2012-05-20 at 11:35 -0700, Paul Allen Newell wrote:

I am having problems with is expecting to see new additions from
iptables logging rejections and not getting them until much later, if
at all? I just wanted to find out if there was a need/way to make sure
that nothing is "waiting" to be written as Idon't know if there is any
buffering of output (something like fflush() in c++).

You can configure iptables to log to somewhere else. Another file, or
directly to a console.

Tim:

When I first looked into the man pages et al for iptables, I found the LOG but
no way to specify a file. The best I could sort out was using a prefix so I
would at least have a token to search for in /var/log/messages.

I just did a quick google to see if I missed something. The only thing I see is
a level and a link to syslog.conf, which I did not get on first reading (and it
didn't feel like where I should be looking to begin with).

Can you point me to a link?

/etc/rsyslog.conf and it's man page. Define a debug.log and have debug stuff go 

there, by setting the level to debug.

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