[syslog-ng] ipfw logging

[Ilya]

source src1 { file("/dev/klog"); };
yep thsi worked! thx a lot, sorry about  this


----- Original Message -----
From: "Balazs Scheidler" <bazsi@balabit.hu>
To: <syslog-ng@venus.terrasoft.hu>
Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2000 5:04 AM
Subject: Re: [syslog-ng] ipfw logging


> > > ok i tried /dev/log - no result, same thing - ipfw is not being logged
> > > anywhere. i noiced that i am not the only one with this problem. the
> > > other person from japan seems to have similar issue.
> >
> > I don't have the whole thread, so this may already have been covered...
> >
> > I believe ipfw is logged via. the kernel like ipchains.  Do you have the
> > kernel logging device in your syslog-ng config file?  On Linux, you need
> > to add:
> >         file("/proc/kmsg");
> > to your source statement and then you can kill klogd.
>
> I think he uses FreeBSD, and /proc/kmsg is Linux specific. (and even under
> linux, using klogd is recommended, since it preprocesses some kernel
> messages)
>
>
> FreeBSD uses a special character device named /dev/klog for kernel
logging.
> It _should_ work with
>
> file s_kern { file("/dev/klog"); };
>
> If it doesn't, then tell me how to generate some kernel messages under
> FreeBSD. I have it installed, but since I'm not that much experienced in
> it, I can't test whether kernel messages arrive or not.
>
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