We enabled kernel messages to the serial port by doing the following: Boot line in Grub: kernel (hd0,3)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda4 acpi=oldboot vga=791 console=ttyS0 console=tty0 Syslog.conf # # /etc/syslog.conf - Configuration file for syslogd(8) # # For info about the format of this file, see "man syslog.conf". # # print most on tty10 and on the xconsole pipe # kern.warn;*.err;authpriv.none /dev/tty10 *.err;authpriv.none |/dev/xconsole *.emerg * # ABM added infos to the firewall log (set log level to info in SuSEfirewall2) # the - means don't sync the log file kern.info -/var/log/firewall # ABM send all other kernel messags to messages kern.*;kern.!info /var/log/messages # all email-messages in one file mail.* -/var/log/mail # Warnings in one file *.=warn;*.=err -/var/log/warn *.crit /var/log/warn # Some foreign boot scripts require local7 # local0,local1.* -/var/log/localmessages local2,local3.* -/var/log/localmessages local4,local5.* -/var/log/localmessages local6,local7.* -/var/log/localmessages So now all firewall messages go to /var/log/firewall until logrotate runs after which they go to the serial port and bog the machine down. Very strange. Andy
-----Original Message----- From: Carlos E. R. [mailto:robin1.listas@tiscali.es] snip How did you do this?