On 7/20/2011 10:18 AM, Keith Roberts wrote: > On Wed, 20 Jul 2011, cbulist at gmail.com wrote: > >> To: centos at centos.org >> From: "cbulist at gmail.com"<cbulist at gmail.com> >> Subject: [CentOS] Iptables - flooding console >> >> Hi, >> >> We are trying to track some specific rules using LOG as target. >> Everything is working well but the problem is that iptables is flooding >> the console with LOG messages. >> We tried --log level 4 on iptables rules but it didn't work. >> We fixed the problem changing KLOGD_OPTIONS value in >> /etc/sysconfig/syslog to: >> KLOG_OPTIONS="-c 4" >> >> Is it the best option or we are missing something? >> >> Thanks in advance > I had this problem as well. The firewall logs were being > sent (tailed/tee'd ?) to the console, which is a pain if you > are using mc or any other console application. > > To fix it on Centos 5.5/6 I just added the following > to the top of the /etc/syslog.conf file. > > Deleted these lines as not in use: > > # Log all kernel messages to the console. > # Logging much else clutters up the screen. > #kern.* /dev/console > > > Replaced with: > # Log all firewall messages to a file. > kern.=debug /var/log/firewall-log > > Obviously you need to make sure the firewall log file > exists > > -rw-r--r-- keith users 39039 Jul 20 15:24 firewall-log > > Kind Regards, > Thanks Keith, I tried your solution but it didn't work. (man 8 syslogd describes what you said) First I returned the default value on KLOG_OPTIONS, I restarted the syslog service but the iptables still continuous sending the log to console. I forget mention the info system: CentOS 5.6 [root at server_56 ~]# uname -r 2.6.18-238.el5 [root at server_56 ~]# iptables -V iptables v1.3.5 Sincerely, Julio