way to flush /var/log/message

[Alan J. Gagne]

> When I first looked into the man pages et al for iptables, I found the
> LOG but no way to specify a file. The best I could sort out was using a
> prefix so I would at least have a token to search for in /var/log/messages.
>
> I just did a quick google to see if I missed something. The only thing I
> see is a level and a link to syslog.conf, which I did not get on first
> reading (and it didn't feel like where I should be looking to begin with).
>
> Can you point me to a link?

You could look at sending iptables messages to /var/log/iptables using 
rsyslog.

http://blog.shadypixel.com/log-iptables-messages-to-a-separate-file-with-rsyslog/

Alan

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