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Broaden the response to FAQ 16

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@ -1029,6 +1029,15 @@ DROP net fw udp 10619</programlisting>
<para><emphasis role="bold">Answer:</emphasis></para>
<para>Just to be clear, it is not Shorewall that is writing all over
your console. Shorewall issues a single log message during each
<command>start</command>, <command>restart</command>,
<command>stop</command>, etc. It is rather the klogd daemon that is
writing messages to your console. Shorewall itself has no control over
where a particular class of messages are written. See the <ulink
url="shorewall_logging.html">Shorewall logging
documentation</ulink>.</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>Find where klogd is being started (it will be from one of the
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the appropriate configuration file so that klogd is started with
<quote>-c <emphasis>&lt;n&gt;</emphasis> </quote> where
<emphasis>&lt;n&gt;</emphasis> is a log level of 5 or less;
or</para>
and/or</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
@ -1046,6 +1055,14 @@ DROP net fw udp 10619</programlisting>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<warning>
<para>The hints below are just that; they have been known to work with
at least one release in the past but are not guaranteed to continue to
work with all releases of a particular distribution. As described
above, you may have to hunt around in your distribution's init scripts
in order to find the correct solution.</para>
</warning>
<tip>
<para>Under RedHat and Mandriva, the max <ulink
url="shorewall_logging.html">log level</ulink> that is sent to the