oops... sorry Bruce, this was meant for the list and got dumped to you by mistake. And it probably won't help him much. If he wants to log at all he'll probably want to log the critical packets and those are the ones he is complaining about. Well, it's a jungle out there, and you might as well get used to large message files. At least they are being rotated over every once in a while. Cheers, Alex. On Wed, 26 Nov 2003, Bruce Marshall wrote:

On Wednesday 26 November 2003 18:27, Tom Nielsen wrote:

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On Wed, 2003-11-26 at 15:20, Bruce Marshall wrote:

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On Wednesday 26 November 2003 18:16, Tom Nielsen wrote:

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I looked at my firewall's /var/log/messages log and it's about 8mb and climbing 10K about every 1 minute. I looked at it and noticed almost all lines relate to SuSE-FW-DROP-DEFAULT which are caused by other computers sniffing around.

How can I reduce these so that those lines are not included? I imagine this would reduce my files and reduce my processor work.????

Thanks, Tom

Check your settings for logging on firewall2.

Using SuSE 8.2 on the firewall. I still couldn't find anything relating to logging. Sorry.

Tom

Well it took me all of two minutes to go into YAST and find that the setup for the firewall has (step 4 of 4) which deals with logging.

And I don't even use SuSEfirewall2.

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