Bug 380461

Summary:	net-firewall/ufw : please make ufw use its own logfile instead of messages logfile
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Emmanuel Andry <eandry>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Sławomir Nizio <slawomir.nizio>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	pva
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Emmanuel Andry 2011-08-24 10:26:44 UTC

ufw makes /var/log/messages hard to read because of the too many ufw entries.
Please make a separate ufw.log for the firewall (and a logrotate conf).

Thanks !

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2011-08-25 14:31:56 UTC

Add USE=syslog?

Comment 2 Sławomir Nizio 2011-08-25 21:27:30 UTC

Ufw does not write logs by itself; it just sets iptables rules that do it.
If you emerge ufw with examples USE flag, you'll get an example rsyslog configuration file that makes the logger write ufw log to another file.
I've made configuration for syslog-ng that does what you want (really nice idea), and a logrotate rule will follow.

Comment 3 Peter Volkov (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2011-09-03 12:17:59 UTC

+*ufw-0.30.1-r3 (03 Sep 2011)
+
+  03 Sep 2011; Peter Volkov <pva@gentoo.org> +ufw-0.30.1-r3.ebuild,
+  +files/rsyslog/ufw.logrotate, +files/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.example,
+  +files/syslog-ng/ufw.logrotate:
+  Add example syslog configurations for rsyslog and syslog-ng, bug #380461,
+  thank Emmanuel Andry for report and Sławomir Nizio for this job.