Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] ntp problem

[Michele P. <10...@ti...>]

At 10.45 13/03/2007 -0700, you wrote:
>One other item I noticed.
>I use a different firewall than the ones provided (don't know if this 
>matters here).
>
>When networking is started, network communications are blocked (all 
>packets dropped). Starting up the firewall opens up the network (as much 
>as the firewall allows).
>This is fine, since it closes a security hole during boot.
>
>However, syslog is started BEFORE the firewall is brought up. If you are 
>logging to a remote system, it, of course, fails since it can't connect.
>The workaround for that is to change the order of startup to have syslog 
>start after the firewall is set up.
>
>Philip

Thank you Philip!
You gave me a possible (and quite plausible!!) reason for a remote syslog 
failure I was having some time ago (at that time I decided to syslog 
locally instead and put a cron job to tar.gz /var/log/messages every 15 
minutes).
Tomorrow I'll try your suggestion!

If it works I owe you an ale! ^_^ (If you ever pass by)

Live long and prosper! (and keep pushing the button! [ 4 8 15 16 23 42 
EXECUTE ])

Michele