way to flush /var/log/message

[Tim]

On Sun, 2012-05-20 at 11:35 -0700, Paul Allen Newell wrote:
> I am having problems with is expecting to see new additions from
> iptables logging rejections and not getting them until much later, if
> at all? I just wanted to find out if there was a need/way to make sure
> that nothing is "waiting" to be written as Idon't know if there is any
> buffering of output (something like fflush() in c++).

You can configure iptables to log to somewhere else.  Another file, or
directly to a console.

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