way to flush /var/log/message

[Paul Allen Newell]

On 5/21/2012 5:07 PM, Max Pyziur wrote:
>
> One more suggestion; if I understand correctly, you want to tail -f a 
> logfile, but you only want to see certain events; perhaps this is what 
> you need:
>
> tail -f /path/to/some/logfile | grep certain_event
>
>
>> Paul
>>
>
>
> fyi,
>
> Max Pyziur
> pyz at brama.com

Max:

Thanks for email. Actually, I want to be able to see the message in 
context of whats around it as I am still learning about iptables and 
/var/log/messages. I tried a grep and it was even harder to see if 
anything was happening as I could do an action which I knew would leave 
a message right then and there.

To be honest, now that I found out that the problem with ssh from F16 to 
Cygwin was POM on the Windows side (and notice I am not limiting to just 
Cygwin (smile)), it has become "not so important". But some of the 
suggestions look worth looking at as I've wanted a way to get debug 
messages out of iptables into a file other than /var/log/messages as I 
try to learn more about usign iptables.

Paul