[syslog-ng]Iptables is not logging to sysylog-ng

[Victor]

> On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 05:16:48PM -0400, Victor wrote:
>
> | What exactly does klogd do? was it separated from syslogd for Licensing
> | issues? Is it safe to replace klogd with --file("/proc/kmsg"); ?
> | Also, can you give an example of actual config that has this?
>
> klogd is meant to be a filter for certain kernel messages.  Some messages
> (like those from iptables) are ordinary.  Others, such as kernel panics,
> are generally logged in hex or some other human-unfriendly form.  klogd
> understands these messages and converts them to a friendlier form.  It is
> not necessary to run klogd, as syslogd or syslog-ng can parse /proc/kmsg
> just fine, but the information read from /proc/kmsg may not be very useful
> without the processing klogd does.
>
> -James

Ah, I see. Thanks. Makes sense now.