Bug 151647 - RFE: add log target
Summary: RFE: add log target
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: system-config-firewall
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Thomas Woerner
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Depends On:
Blocks: 177950 494832
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2005-03-21 12:58 UTC by Patrick C. F. Ernzer
Modified: 2013-11-06 19:36 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Last Closed: 2013-11-06 19:36:54 UTC
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Description Patrick C. F. Ernzer 2005-03-21 12:58:36 UTC
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Description of problem:
IMHO we would really help users if we had a LOG target just before our DROP.

At the moment, using s-c-securitylevel will not tell the user why something fails.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. configure a firewall with s-c-securitylevel
2. enable it
3. try do access via a method that is not allowed by the just configured iptables
  

Actual Results:  user has no clue why it fails

Expected Results:  there should be entries in /var/log/messages (or even better in a separate log file, do not forget to add said logfile to logrotate if added)

Additional info:

to avoid spamming of the logs we should set a limit, say 10/minute, optimally the user would get a drop down list where she/he can select one of
  1/minute
  5/minute
  10/minute
  60/minute
  unlimited

Comment 1 Thomas Woerner 2007-07-23 12:22:03 UTC
There will be a new firewall configuration tool for fedora, soon. This feature
is on the todo list.

Comment 2 Thomas Woerner 2007-11-06 13:21:40 UTC
Assigning to system-config-firewall.

Comment 3 Orion Poplawski 2012-10-19 20:56:47 UTC
Ah yes, soon.  I suppose this may be in place now for Fedora, but it would be nice for RHEL6 too.  I suppose bug 494832 might be about that, but that is private.

Comment 4 Thomas Woerner 2013-11-06 19:36:54 UTC
Closing because there will not be big changes to system-config-firewall anymore.


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