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<articleinfo>
<title>Shorewall Logging</title>
<authorgroup>
<author>
<firstname>Tom</firstname>
<surname>Eastep</surname>
</author>
</authorgroup>
<pubdate><?dbtimestamp format="Y/m/d"?></pubdate>
<copyright>
<year>2001 - 2009</year>
<holder>Thomas M. Eastep</holder>
</copyright>
<legalnotice>
<para>Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version
1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with
no Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover, and with no Back-Cover
Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled
<quote><ulink url="GnuCopyright.htm">GNU Free Documentation
License</ulink></quote>.</para>
</legalnotice>
</articleinfo>
<caution>
<para><emphasis role="bold">This article applies to Shorewall 4.3 and
later. If you are running a version of Shorewall earlier than Shorewall
4.3.5 then please see the documentation for that
release.</emphasis></para>
</caution>
<section id="Log">
<title>How to Log Traffic Through a Shorewall Firewall</title>
<para>The disposition of packets entering a Shorewall firewall is
determined by one of a number of Shorewall facilities. Only some of these
facilities permit logging.</para>
<orderedlist>
<listitem>
<para>The packet is part of an established connection. While the
packet can be logged using LOG rules in the ESTABLISHED section of
<ulink
url="manpages/shorewall-rules.html">/etc/shorewall/rules</ulink>, that
is not recommended because of the large amount of information that may
be logged.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>The packet represents a connection request that is related to an
established connection (such as a <ulink url="FTP.html">data
connection associated with an FTP control connection</ulink>). These
packets may be logged using LOG rules in the RELATED section of <ulink
url="manpages/shorewall-rules.html">/etc/shorewall/rules</ulink>.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>The packet is rejected because of an option in <ulink
url="manpages/shorewall.conf.html">/etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf</ulink>
or <ulink
url="manpages/shorewall-interfaces.html">/etc/shorewall/interfaces</ulink>.
These packets can be logged by setting the appropriate logging-related
option in <ulink
url="manpages/shorewall.conf.html">/etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf</ulink>.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>The packet matches a rule in <ulink
url="manpages/shorewall-rules.html">/etc/shorewall/rules</ulink>. By
including a syslog level (see below) in the ACTION column of a rule
(e.g., <quote>ACCEPT<emphasis role="bold">:info</emphasis> net $FW tcp
22</quote>), the connection attempt will be logged at that
level.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>The packet doesn't match a rule so it is handled by a policy
defined in <ulink
url="manpages/shorewall-policy.html">/etc/shorewall/policy</ulink>.
These may be logged by specifying a syslog level in the LOG LEVEL
column of the policy's entry (e.g., <quote>loc net ACCEPT <emphasis
role="bold">info</emphasis></quote>).</para>
</listitem>
</orderedlist>
</section>
<section id="Where">
<title>Where the Traffic is Logged and How to Change the
Destination</title>
<para>By default, Shorewall directs Netfilter to log using syslog (8).
Syslog classifies log messages by a <emphasis>facility</emphasis> and a
<emphasis>priority</emphasis> (using the notation
<emphasis>facility.priority</emphasis>).</para>
<para>The facilities defined by syslog are <emphasis>auth, authpriv, cron,
daemon, kern, lpr, mail, mark, news, syslog, user, uucp</emphasis> and
<emphasis>local0</emphasis> through <emphasis>local7.</emphasis></para>
<para>Throughout the Shorewall documentation, I will use the term
<emphasis>level</emphasis> rather than <emphasis>priority </emphasis>since
<emphasis>level</emphasis> is the term used by Netfilter. The syslog
documentation uses the term <emphasis>priority</emphasis>.</para>
<section id="Levels">
<title>Syslog Levels</title>
<para>Syslog levels are a method of describing to syslog (8) the
importance of a message. A number of Shorewall parameters have a syslog
level as their value.</para>
<para>Valid levels are:</para>
<simplelist>
<member>7 - <emphasis role="bold">debug</emphasis> (Debug-level
messages)</member>
<member>6 - <emphasis role="bold">info</emphasis>
(Informational)</member>
<member>5 - <emphasis role="bold">notice</emphasis> (Normal but
significant Condition)</member>
<member>4 - <emphasis role="bold">warning</emphasis> (Warning
Condition)</member>
<member>3 - <emphasis role="bold">err</emphasis> (Error
Condition)</member>
<member>2 - <emphasis role="bold">crit</emphasis> (Critical
Conditions)</member>
<member>1 - <emphasis role="bold">alert</emphasis> (must be handled
immediately)</member>
<member>0 - <emphasis role="bold">emerg</emphasis> (System is
unusable)</member>
</simplelist>
<para>For most Shorewall logging, a level of 6 (info) is appropriate.
Shorewall log messages are generated by Netfilter and are logged using
the <emphasis>kern</emphasis> facility and the level that you specify.
If you are unsure of the level to choose, 6 (info) is a safe bet. You
may specify levels by name or by number.</para>
<para>Syslogd writes log messages to files (typically in <filename
class="directory">/var/log/</filename>*) based on their facility and
level. The mapping of these facility/level pairs to log files is done in
/etc/syslog.conf (5). If you make changes to this file, you must restart
syslogd before the changes can take effect.</para>
<para>Syslog may also write to your system console. See <ulink
url="FAQ.htm#faq16">Shorewall FAQ 16</ulink> for ways to avoid having
Shorewall messages written to the console.</para>
</section>
<section id="ULOG">
<title>Configuring a Separate Log for Shorewall Messages (ulogd)</title>
<para>There are a couple of limitations to syslogd-based logging:</para>
<orderedlist>
<listitem>
<para>If you give, for example, kern.info its own log destination
then that destination will also receive all kernel messages of
levels 5 (notice) through 0 (emerg).</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>All kernel.info messages will go to that destination and not
just those from Netfilter.</para>
</listitem>
</orderedlist>
<para>If your kernel has ULOG target support (and most vendor-supplied
kernels do), you may also specify a log level of ULOG (must be all
caps). When ULOG is used, Shorewall will direct Netfilter to log the
related messages via the ULOG target which will send them to a process
called <quote>ulogd</quote>. The ulogd program is included in most
distributions and is also available from <ulink
url="http://www.netfilter.org/projects/ulogd/index.html">http://www.netfilter.org/projects/ulogd/index.html</ulink>.
Ulogd can be configured to log all Shorewall messages to their own log
file.</para>
<note>
<para>The ULOG logging mechanism is <emphasis
role="underline">completely separate</emphasis> from syslog. Once you
switch to ULOG, the settings in <filename>/etc/syslog.conf</filename>
have absolutely no effect on your Shorewall logging (except for
Shorewall status messages which still go to syslog).</para>
</note>
<para>You will need to change all instances of log levels (usually
<quote>info</quote>) in your Shorewall configuration files to
<quote>ULOG</quote> - this includes entries in the policy, rules and
shorewall.conf files. Here's what I had at one time:</para>
<programlisting>gateway:/etc/shorewall# grep -v ^\# * | egrep '\$LOG|ULOG|LOGFILE'
params:LOG=ULOG
policy:loc $FW REJECT $LOG
policy:net all DROP $LOG 10/sec:40
policy:all all REJECT $LOG
rules:REJECT:$LOG loc net tcp 25
rules:REJECT:$LOG loc net udp 1025:1031
rules:REJECT:$LOG dmz net udp 1025:1031
rules:ACCEPT:$LOG dmz net tcp 1024: 20
rules:REJECT:$LOG $FW net udp 1025:1031
shorewall.conf:LOGFILE=/var/log/shorewall
shorewall.conf:LOGUNCLEAN=$LOG
shorewall.conf:MACLIST_LOG_LEVEL=$LOG
shorewall.conf:TCP_FLAGS_LOG_LEVEL=$LOG
shorewall.conf:RFC1918_LOG_LEVEL=$LOG
gateway:/etc/shorewall# </programlisting>
<para>Finally edit <filename>/etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf</filename>
and set LOGFILE=&lt;<emphasis>file that you wish to log
to</emphasis>&gt;. This tells the <filename>/sbin/shorewall</filename>
program where to look for the log when processing its
<quote><command>show log</command></quote>,
<quote><command>logwatch</command></quote> and
<quote><command>dump</command></quote> commands.</para>
<para>The NFLOG target, a successor to ULOG, is supported shorewall.
Both ULOG and NFLOG may be followed by a list of up to three numbers in
parentheses.</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>The first number specifies the netlink group (1-32). If
omitted (e.g., NFLOG(,0,10)) then a value of 1 is assumed.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>The second number specifies the maximum number of bytes to
copy. If omitted, 0 (no limit) is assumed.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>The third number specifies the number of log messages that
should be buffered in the kernel before they are sent to user space.
The default is 1.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<para>Examples:</para>
<para><filename>/etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf</filename>:
<programlisting>MACLIST_LOG_LEVEL=NFLOG(1,0,1)</programlisting></para>
<para><filename>/etc/shorewall/rules</filename>:<programlisting>#ACTION SOURCE DEST PROTO DEST
# PORT(S)
ACCEPT:NFLOG(1,0,1) vpn fw tcp ssh,time,631,8080 </programlisting></para>
</section>
</section>
<section id="Syslog-ng">
<title>Syslog-ng</title>
<para><ulink
url="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=gentoo-security&amp;amp;m=106040714910563&amp;amp;w=2">Here</ulink>
is a post describing configuring syslog-ng to work with Shorewall. Recent
<trademark>SUSE</trademark> releases come preconfigured with syslog-ng
with Netfilter messages (including Shorewall's) are written to
<filename>/var/log/firewall</filename>.</para>
</section>
<section id="Contents">
<title>Understanding the Contents of Shorewall Log Messages</title>
<para>For general information on the contents of Netfilter log messages,
see <ulink
url="http://www.net.co.at/doc/howto/docs/iptables_netfilter_howto_de/docs/netfilter_log_format/index.html">http://www.net.co.at/doc/howto/docs/iptables_netfilter_howto_de/docs/netfilter_log_format/index.html</ulink>.</para>
<para>For Shorewall-specific information, see <ulink
url="FAQ.htm#faq17">FAQ #17</ulink>.</para>
</section>
</article>