way to flush /var/log/message

[Paul Allen Newell]

On 5/21/2012 1:19 PM, Alan J. Gagne wrote:
>> On 5/21/2012 12:15 PM, Alan J. Gagne wrote:
>> >/
>> />/  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
>> />/
>> />/
>> /
>> Alan:
>>
>> Thanks for the reply. I did an initial read of the page and it looks
>> interesting. That being said, I'm going to have to take a few more
>> passes to make sure I understand it.
>>
>> If I read correctly, it isn't a replacement for logging to
>> /var/log/messages, just a way to filter those logs into another log that
>> only gets what I want to see?
>
> You can use it to redirect all iptables messages to a seperate log only.
>
> You may want to look at ulogd in the fedora repo. I have used this in 
> the past
> for saving data to mysql.
>
> Alan
>
>
> Name        : ulogd
> Arch        : x86_64
> Version     : 1.24
> Release     : 15.fc16
> Size        : 131 k
> Repo        : fedora
> Summary     : The userspace logging daemon for netfilter
> URL         : http://gnumonks.org/projects
> License     : GPLv2
> Description : Ulogd is an universal logging daemon for the ULOG target 
> of netfilter, the
>             : Linux 2.4+ firewalling subsystem. Ulogd is able to log 
> packets in various
>             : formats to different targets (text files, databases, 
> etc..). It has an
>             : easy-to-use plugin interface to add new protocols and 
> new output targets.
>
> Name        : ulogd-mysql
> Arch        : x86_64
> Version     : 1.24
> Release     : 15.fc16
> Size        : 11 k
> Repo        : fedora
> Summary     : MySQL output plugin for ulogd
> URL         : http://gnumonks.org/projects
> License     : GPLv2
> Description : Ulogd-mysql is a MySQL output plugin for ulogd. It 
> enables logging of
>             : firewall information into a MySQL database.
>
> Name        : ulogd-pcap
> Arch        : x86_64
> Version     : 1.24
> Release     : 15.fc16
> Size        : 9.2 k
> Repo        : fedora
> Summary     : PCAP output plugin for ulogd
> URL         : http://gnumonks.org/projects
> License     : GPLv2
> Description : ulogd-pcap is a output plugin for ulogd that saves 
> packet logs as PCAP file.
>             : PCAP is a standard format that can be later analyzed by 
> a lot of tools such as
>             : tcpdump and wireshark.
>
> Name        : ulogd-pgsql
> Arch        : x86_64
> Version     : 1.24
> Release     : 15.fc16
> Size        : 11 k
> Repo        : fedora
> Summary     : PostgreSQL output plugin for ulogd
> URL         : http://gnumonks.org/projects
> License     : GPLv2
> Description : Ulogd-pgsql is a PostgreSQL output plugin for ulogd. It 
> enables logging of
>             : firewall information into a PostgreSQL database.
>
>
>
Alan:

Thanks for letting me know that it wasn't what I expected on first 
reading. I'll look into the ulogd.

Paul
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