Re: [Firestarter-user] Disabling logging blocked packets

[Mike P. <la...@do...>]

David Tarico wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm running firestarter-0.9.3-1 on RedHat AS3, and all the blocked IP
> packets are being logged to /var/log/messages
> 
> Despite rotation, the messages file gets very large (gigs) because of all
> the network traffic.  I know that I can explicitly block ports and they will
> no longer be logged, but I am wondering if there is a simple way to stop the
> logging altogether.
> 
> I found one posting on-line that said to add "LOG_LEVEL=none" to the
> /etc/firestarter/configuration file, but no such file exists on my machine.
> 
> 
> Am I supposed to have a configuration file?  I can't find anything about it
> the manual.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> David.
> 
> --------------------------
> David Tarico, Programmer
> Planetary Science Institute
> 1700 E Ft. Lowell, Suite 106
> Tucson, AZ 85719
> 

Another option:

You can use syslog-ng in place of regular syslog to either log those 
messages to a separate file, or just dump them completely.


-Mike