Bug 16158

Summary: log rotation stops ipchains message logging
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Mike Bakke <mike>
Component: ipchainsAssignee: Cristian Gafton <gafton>
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Version: 6.1Keywords: Security
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Description Mike Bakke 2000-08-14 12:02:35 UTC 
Whenever my message logs rotate, ipchains stops logging PACKET alert 
messages. I cannot see this in Bugzilla but did find the symptom mentioned 
in deja.com postings. 

Other posters implied a restart of syslogd would resolve but when I -
SIGHUP to restart, logging still doesn't occur.

Flush and reload of chains has no effect either.

Only solution to date appears to be a re-boot, all then reverts to normal.

As far as I can tell ipchains is still doing what it should in terms of 
managing access but there is no longer any visibility of foreign scans.

Other log messages appear normally.
Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2000-08-14 14:56:13 UTC 
Make sure you're running the errata syslogd.