 | | | Packet drop messages being logged to console | Packet drop messages being logged to console 2003-07-12 - By Joshua Andrews
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Michael St. Laurent wrote:
>I 've run the Bastille-2.1.1 hardening script on a Red Hat 9 system and now
>any time the firewall causes a packet to be dropped the drop message is
>being displayed on the console. This makes it difficult to use the console
>for administration. I 've looked at /etc/syslog.conf and have commented out
>any line that looks as if it might send something to the console but to no
>avail. Is there something else that might be doing this or have I just
>missed something in the config file?
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If they are kernel messages you can send all the messages to a log file.
In syslog.conf:
kern.* /var/log/kernel_log
Then make an entry for kernel_log in /etc/logrotate.d/syslog.
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