ipfw logging issue

Michael Wayne freebsd07 at wayne47.com
Wed Jan 15 21:01:42 UTC 2020


On Wed, Jan 15, 2020 at 04:09:43PM +0700, Eugene Grosbein wrote:
> 15.01.2020 7:31, Michael Wayne wrote:
> > 
> > Running 12.1-RELEASE-p1
> > 
> > I put the following into syslog.conf, which worked on prior releases:
> > 
> > # Log ipfw messages without syncing after every message.
> > !ipfw
> > *.*                                     -/var/log/ipfw.log
> > 
> > 
> > While I continue to see ipfw messages logged to /var/log/security,
> > they are not being written to /var/log/ipfw.log. Removing the "-"
> > has no effect. What changed?
> > 
> > Is it just broken?
> 
> They always were "security.info" messages. You need not complicating things, just do:
> 
> security.info -/var/log/ipfw.log

Perhaps something needs to be done about
   https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?syslog.conf(5)

which contains the following:

# Log ipfw	messages without syncing after every message.
!ipfw
*.*						     -/var/log/ipfw


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