I’m switching to OpenSUSE after many years using Debian. More or less I have everything set as I want, but one thing that still I haven’t been able to do is redirect iptables log to a custom log file, for example /var/log/iptables.
I know that using YaST firewall, it’s going to be logged to /var/log/firewall, but I’m using plain iptables with my script, so how can I do this? Because there is no rsyslog as in Debian.
There is. And syslog-ng, and syslogd.
It’s just not installed by default, as systemd provides a log (the “journal”) anyway.
Just install rsyslog (and reboot to start it), and systemd will pass all log messages to it. If you install it, you’ll get a conflict with systemd-logger, just choose to uninstall that. This is only needed for compatibility when no syslog daemon is installed.
The default rsyslog config contains a rule to log to /var/log/firewall, it’s not SuSEfirewall or YaST that does that… (SuSEfirewall is just a helper script to setup iptables anyway)
ok done,
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