Re: [webmin-l] bandwidth monitoring on debian

[Pat E. <mai...@pa...>]

hi,

On Sun, 24 Sep 2006 20:08:01 +0200, Jamie Cameron <jca...@we...>  
wrote:
>> on debian 3.1, if i enable the bandwith monitoring, my /var partition is
>> running full very quickly. one thing i realized is, that the firewall
>> logging is not just going into /var/log/bandwidth but alos into
>> /var/log/debug AND /var/log/kern.log. i wonder if there's a way to  
>> disable
>> this behaviour.
>
> Yes, you can do this in the System Logs module. Just click on the entries
> for /var/log/debug and kern.log, and in the 'Message types to log'  
> section
> add a now with the Facilities set to local7 and the Priorities to None.
"add a now"? this one i don't really get..

>
>> another problem is, that on one of my servers, although iptables is
>> installed, the module is reporting that none of the supported firewall
>> systems is found. what can i do about this?
>
> Have you tried using the Linux Firewall module on that server to do the
> initial firewall setup? Unless this is done, the Bandwidth module can't
> add the iptables rules it needs.
ok, this may be the problem. it's a production server, so i can't do this  
right now, thanks anyway..

PAT