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Re: Turning on pf logging after switching from ipf.

To: "Dries Schellekens" <gwyllion@ace.ulyssis.org>
Subject: Re: Turning on pf logging after switching from ipf.
From: "Shawn Wilton" <shawn@black9.net>
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 10:09:01 -0800
Cc: <misc@openbsd.org>
In-reply-to: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0202281417140.30301-100000@ace>
Sender: owner-misc@openbsd.org
Thanks!  but why isn't that in the man pages and why isn't it done
automatically?  Is there a way of logging to disk w/o the risk of running
tcpdump as root on the base machine?



-----Original Message-----
From: Dries Schellekens [mailto:gwyllion@ace.ulyssis.org]
Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2002 5:21 AM
To: Shawn Wilton
Cc: misc@openbsd.org
Subject: Re: Turning on pf logging after switching from ipf.


On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, Shawn Wilton wrote:

> Hey, I searched the archives for how to "turn on the logging" for pf, but
> all I found was this:  tcpdump -n -e -ttt -i pflog0
>
> That just gives a network down error.  I touched the /var/log/pflog file,
> and sighupped syslogd, but that did nothing as well.  Don't suppose
someone
> could point me in the right direction?  I did find pflogd, but as far as I
> can tell, it just doesn't run.

I think you forgot to do
# ifconfig pflog0 up
Then start pflogd and read the log use
# tcpdump -n -e -ttt -r /var/log/pflog
or realtime
# tcpdump -n -e -ttt -i pflog0

Greetings,

Dries
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Dries Schellekens
email: gwyllion@ulyssis.org

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