Dear MichaelRoth@schmuecker.de, concerning your mail sent on Fri, 12 Nov 1999 let me reply the following:

Hi all, is there any way to write the logging-output from ipchains to an other file as /var/log/messages ?

Greetings, Michael J. Roth

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Hello, for the ipchains-HOWTO see http://www.rustcorp.com/linux/ipchains/HOWTO.html In chapter 4 one can see that the option "-l" enables logging via klogd (the kernellogdaemon). klogd gives the information to syslogd (the systemlogdaemon). Therefore you have to edit /etc/syslogd.conf, where you can add kern.debug /PATH/LOGFILENAME Then you will find _all_ logs of klogd in that file. Instead of kern.debug it might be reasonable to write kern.info, otherwise you will find informations that you don't need (I don't yknow what you want to log). Anyway, you should read the man pages of syslogd, syslog.conf, klogd, ipchains,... Martin -- ---------------------------------------------------- Martin Peikert EN 636 Fachgebiet Theoretische Elektrotechnik TU Berlin Sekretariat EN 2 fon 314-23881 fax 314-22284 http://www-tet.ee.tu-berlin.de/peikert/index.html ----------------------------------------------------