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<!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.4//EN"
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<article id="IPIP">
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<articleinfo>
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<title>Shorewall Logging</title>
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<authorgroup>
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<author>
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<firstname>Tom</firstname>
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<surname>Eastep</surname>
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</author>
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</authorgroup>
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<pubdate><?dbtimestamp format="Y/m/d"?></pubdate>
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<copyright>
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<year>2001 - 2009</year>
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<holder>Thomas M. Eastep</holder>
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</copyright>
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<legalnotice>
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<para>Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
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document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version
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1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with
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no Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover, and with no Back-Cover
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Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled
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<quote><ulink url="GnuCopyright.htm">GNU Free Documentation
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License</ulink></quote>.</para>
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</legalnotice>
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</articleinfo>
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<caution>
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<para><emphasis role="bold">This article applies to Shorewall 4.3 and
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later. If you are running a version of Shorewall earlier than Shorewall
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4.3.5 then please see the documentation for that
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release.</emphasis></para>
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</caution>
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<section id="Log">
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<title>How to Log Traffic Through a Shorewall Firewall</title>
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<para>The disposition of packets entering a Shorewall firewall is
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determined by one of a number of Shorewall facilities. Only some of these
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facilities permit logging.</para>
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<orderedlist>
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<listitem>
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<para>The packet is part of an established connection. While the
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packet can be logged using LOG rules in the ESTABLISHED section of
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<ulink
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url="manpages/shorewall-rules.html">/etc/shorewall/rules</ulink>, that
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is not recommended because of the large amount of information that may
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be logged.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>The packet represents a connection request that is related to an
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established connection (such as a <ulink url="FTP.html">data
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connection associated with an FTP control connection</ulink>). These
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packets may be logged using LOG rules in the RELATED section of <ulink
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url="manpages/shorewall-rules.html">/etc/shorewall/rules</ulink>.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>The packet is rejected because of an option in <ulink
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url="manpages/shorewall.conf.html">/etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf</ulink>
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or <ulink
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url="manpages/shorewall-interfaces.html">/etc/shorewall/interfaces</ulink>.
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These packets can be logged by setting the appropriate logging-related
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option in <ulink
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url="manpages/shorewall.conf.html">/etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf</ulink>.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>The packet matches a rule in <ulink
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url="manpages/shorewall-rules.html">/etc/shorewall/rules</ulink>. By
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including a syslog level (see below) in the ACTION column of a rule
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(e.g., <quote>ACCEPT<emphasis role="bold">:info</emphasis> net $FW tcp
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22</quote>), the connection attempt will be logged at that
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level.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>The packet doesn't match a rule so it is handled by a policy
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defined in <ulink
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url="manpages/shorewall-policy.html">/etc/shorewall/policy</ulink>.
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These may be logged by specifying a syslog level in the LOG LEVEL
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column of the policy's entry (e.g., <quote>loc net ACCEPT <emphasis
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role="bold">info</emphasis></quote>).</para>
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</listitem>
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</orderedlist>
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</section>
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<section id="Where">
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<title>Where the Traffic is Logged and How to Change the
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Destination</title>
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<para>By default, Shorewall directs Netfilter to log using syslog (8).
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Syslog classifies log messages by a <emphasis>facility</emphasis> and a
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<emphasis>priority</emphasis> (using the notation
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<emphasis>facility.priority</emphasis>).</para>
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<para>The facilities defined by syslog are <emphasis>auth, authpriv, cron,
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daemon, kern, lpr, mail, mark, news, syslog, user, uucp</emphasis> and
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<emphasis>local0</emphasis> through <emphasis>local7.</emphasis></para>
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<para>Throughout the Shorewall documentation, I will use the term
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<emphasis>level</emphasis> rather than <emphasis>priority </emphasis>since
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<emphasis>level</emphasis> is the term used by Netfilter. The syslog
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documentation uses the term <emphasis>priority</emphasis>.</para>
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<section id="Levels">
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<title>Syslog Levels</title>
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<para>Syslog levels are a method of describing to syslog (8) the
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importance of a message. A number of Shorewall parameters have a syslog
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level as their value.</para>
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<para>Valid levels are:</para>
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<simplelist>
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<member>7 - <emphasis role="bold">debug</emphasis> (Debug-level
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messages)</member>
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<member>6 - <emphasis role="bold">info</emphasis>
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(Informational)</member>
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<member>5 - <emphasis role="bold">notice</emphasis> (Normal but
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significant Condition)</member>
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<member>4 - <emphasis role="bold">warning</emphasis> (Warning
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Condition)</member>
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<member>3 - <emphasis role="bold">err</emphasis> (Error
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Condition)</member>
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<member>2 - <emphasis role="bold">crit</emphasis> (Critical
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Conditions)</member>
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<member>1 - <emphasis role="bold">alert</emphasis> (must be handled
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immediately)</member>
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<member>0 - <emphasis role="bold">emerg</emphasis> (System is
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unusable)</member>
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</simplelist>
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<para>For most Shorewall logging, a level of 6 (info) is appropriate.
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Shorewall log messages are generated by Netfilter and are logged using
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the <emphasis>kern</emphasis> facility and the level that you specify.
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If you are unsure of the level to choose, 6 (info) is a safe bet. You
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may specify levels by name or by number.</para>
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<para>Beginning with Shorewall 4.5.5, the
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<replaceable>level</replaceable> name or number may be optionally
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followed by a comma-separated list of one or more<replaceable> log
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options</replaceable>. The list is enclosed in parentheses. Log options
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cause additional information to be included in each log message.</para>
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<para>Valid log options are:</para>
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<variablelist>
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<varlistentry>
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<term><emphasis role="bold">ip_options</emphasis></term>
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<listitem>
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<para>Log messages will include the option settings from the IP
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header.</para>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry>
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<term><emphasis role="bold">macdecode</emphasis></term>
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<listitem>
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<para>Decode the MAC address and protocol.</para>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry>
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<term><emphasis role="bold">tcp_sequence</emphasis></term>
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<listitem>
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<para>Include TCP sequence numbers.</para>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry>
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<term><emphasis role="bold">tcp_options</emphasis></term>
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<listitem>
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<para>Include options from the TCP header.</para>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry>
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<term><emphasis role="bold">uid</emphasis></term>
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<listitem>
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<para>Include the UID of the sending program; only valid for
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packets originating on the firewall itself.</para>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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</variablelist>
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<para>Example: <emphasis
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role="bold">info(tcp_options,tcp_sequence)</emphasis></para>
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<para>Syslogd writes log messages to files (typically in <filename
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class="directory">/var/log/</filename>*) based on their facility and
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level. The mapping of these facility/level pairs to log files is done in
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/etc/syslog.conf (5). If you make changes to this file, you must restart
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syslogd before the changes can take effect.</para>
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<para>Syslog may also write to your system console. See <ulink
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url="FAQ.htm#faq16">Shorewall FAQ 16</ulink> for ways to avoid having
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Shorewall messages written to the console.</para>
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</section>
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<section id="ULOG">
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<title>Configuring a Separate Log for Shorewall Messages (ulogd)</title>
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<para>There are a couple of limitations to syslogd-based logging:</para>
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<orderedlist>
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<listitem>
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<para>If you give, for example, kern.info its own log destination
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then that destination will also receive all kernel messages of
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levels 5 (notice) through 0 (emerg).</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>All kernel.info messages will go to that destination and not
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just those from Netfilter.</para>
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</listitem>
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</orderedlist>
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<para>If your kernel has ULOG target support (and most vendor-supplied
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kernels do), you may also specify a log level of ULOG (must be all
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caps). When ULOG is used, Shorewall will direct Netfilter to log the
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related messages via the ULOG target which will send them to a process
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called <quote>ulogd</quote>. The ulogd program is included in most
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distributions and is also available from <ulink
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url="http://www.netfilter.org/projects/ulogd/index.html">http://www.netfilter.org/projects/ulogd/index.html</ulink>.
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Ulogd can be configured to log all Shorewall messages to their own log
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file.</para>
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<note>
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<para>The ULOG logging mechanism is <emphasis
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role="underline">completely separate</emphasis> from syslog. Once you
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switch to ULOG, the settings in <filename>/etc/syslog.conf</filename>
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have absolutely no effect on your Shorewall logging (except for
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Shorewall status messages which still go to syslog).</para>
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</note>
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<para>You will need to change all instances of log levels (usually
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<quote>info</quote>) in your Shorewall configuration files to
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<quote>ULOG</quote> - this includes entries in the policy, rules and
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shorewall.conf files. Here's what I had at one time:</para>
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<programlisting>gateway:/etc/shorewall# grep -v ^\# * | egrep '\$LOG|ULOG|LOGFILE'
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params:LOG=ULOG
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policy:loc $FW REJECT $LOG
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policy:net all DROP $LOG 10/sec:40
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policy:all all REJECT $LOG
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rules:REJECT:$LOG loc net tcp 25
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rules:REJECT:$LOG loc net udp 1025:1031
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rules:REJECT:$LOG dmz net udp 1025:1031
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rules:ACCEPT:$LOG dmz net tcp 1024: 20
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rules:REJECT:$LOG $FW net udp 1025:1031
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shorewall.conf:LOGFILE=/var/log/shorewall
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shorewall.conf:LOGUNCLEAN=$LOG
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shorewall.conf:MACLIST_LOG_LEVEL=$LOG
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shorewall.conf:TCP_FLAGS_LOG_LEVEL=$LOG
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shorewall.conf:RFC1918_LOG_LEVEL=$LOG
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gateway:/etc/shorewall# </programlisting>
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<para>Finally edit <filename>/etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf</filename>
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and set LOGFILE=<<emphasis>file that you wish to log
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to</emphasis>>. This tells the <filename>/sbin/shorewall</filename>
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program where to look for the log when processing its
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<quote><command>show log</command></quote>,
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<quote><command>logwatch</command></quote> and
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<quote><command>dump</command></quote> commands.</para>
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<para>The NFLOG target, a successor to ULOG, is supported shorewall.
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Both ULOG and NFLOG may be followed by a list of up to three numbers in
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parentheses.</para>
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem>
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<para>The first number specifies the netlink group (1-32). If
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omitted (e.g., NFLOG(,0,10)) then a value of 0 is assumed.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>The second number specifies the maximum number of bytes to
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copy. If omitted, 0 (no limit) is assumed.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>The third number specifies the number of log messages that
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should be buffered in the kernel before they are sent to user space.
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The default is 1.</para>
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</listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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<para>Examples:</para>
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<para><filename>/etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf</filename>:
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<programlisting>MACLIST_LOG_LEVEL=NFLOG(1,0,1)</programlisting></para>
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<para><filename>/etc/shorewall/rules</filename>:<programlisting>#ACTION SOURCE DEST PROTO DEST
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# PORT(S)
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ACCEPT:NFLOG(1,0,1) vpn fw tcp ssh,time,631,8080 </programlisting></para>
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</section>
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</section>
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<section id="Syslog-ng">
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<title>Syslog-ng</title>
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<para><ulink
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url="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=gentoo-security&amp;m=106040714910563&amp;w=2">Here</ulink>
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is a post describing configuring syslog-ng to work with Shorewall. Recent
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<trademark>SUSE</trademark> releases come preconfigured with syslog-ng
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with Netfilter messages (including Shorewall's) are written to
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<filename>/var/log/firewall</filename>.</para>
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</section>
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<section id="Contents">
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<title>Understanding the Contents of Shorewall Log Messages</title>
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<para>For general information on the contents of Netfilter log messages,
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see <ulink
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url="http://logi.cc/en/2010/07/netfilter-log-format/">http://logi.cc/en/2010/07/netfilter-log-format/</ulink>.</para>
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<para>For Shorewall-specific information, see <ulink
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url="FAQ.htm#faq17">FAQ #17</ulink>.</para>
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</section>
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</article>
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