[Techtalk] iptables logging to stdout

perimorph perimorph at mindspring.com
Sun Nov 16 20:04:47 EST 2003


On Sun, 2003-11-16 at 18:43, gretchen at gretchenann.com wrote:
> Iptables is logging all dropped packets to stdout.  It's driving me
> crazy because on our network there are quite a few things going on and 
...
> How do I make it stop?

check your iptables rules and look for where the drop target is set up. 
in mine, it looks like this:

iptables -A drop-and-log -j LOG --log-level info

you probably have your log-level too high or low, depending on how you
look at it.  search for "log-level" in the file and see what it's set
to.

--ash



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