Please add an option to disable logging

[Darren Albers]

UFW can easily fill a syslog with information that is not relevant to a home user (It certainly is useful on a server though). Please add an option to Gufw to disable logging. The command line option is ufw [--dry-run] logging on|off

Since Gufw is probably not intended for servers I would recommend disabling logging by default.

Thank you for the great application!

[Vadim Peretokin (vperetokin)]

I agree with the idea.

[Vadim Peretokin (vperetokin)]

Also, going to update the preferences idea on this.

[Soul-Sing (soulzing)]

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[costales (costales)]

I think isn't a bug :O
Accepted.
I will study if is on/off by configuration files... :O
For 0.0.8 realease ;)
Thanks

[TuniX12 (tunix12-deactivatedaccount)]

well not a bad idea but i cant see its interest

[Emilio (turl)]

I'd also like to see it ;)

[costales (costales)]

I was searching where ufw save the status logging (on|off), but I didn't found it :O
https://help.ubuntu.com/8.04/serverguide/C/firewall.html
Someone know where is a configuration file for this?
Thanks a lot!

[Vadim Peretokin (vperetokin)]

*sudo ufw logging off

?
*

[TuniX12 (tunix12-deactivatedaccount)]

when log enabled
sudo ufw logging on ufw saves it in /var/log/messages but there is a tool to sort ufw messages only
fwanalog it saves ufw log in /var/log/fwanalog/

[TuniX12 (tunix12-deactivatedaccount)]

all we need is a script to link to fwanalog files

[TuniX12 (tunix12-deactivatedaccount)]

Oo sorry i misunderstood the problem
to disable log ?!!!
sudo ufw logging off

[costales (costales)]

No, I need how know then the log is on or off.
It must be in some configuration file :O In wich?????

[Emilio (turl)]

Can't you run sudo ufw status and parse the result? if you run it it'll say something like "Logging: [On/Off]"

[costales (costales)]

I can't.
Logging: [On/Off] only in Intrepid Ibex. Not appear in Hardy Heron.
And in the future is the application is translated it will not works.

[Vadim Peretokin (vperetokin)]

So we should only enable this feature on Ubuntu 8.10 then.

[Emilio (turl)]

Remember you can always force a locale to be used when running a command line (I don't remember exactly now, I think it was something like "LC_MESSAGE=C command")

Hardy doesn't show logging? I thought it showed :S I'm currently running ufw 0.18.2, maybe Hardy has an older version?

[Emilio (turl)]

You could enable it for ufw 0.18.2+ probably?

[Vadim Peretokin (vperetokin)]

vadi@ubuntu-laptop:~/Systems/vadi-2.1$ sudo ufw status
[sudo] password for vadi:
Firewall loaded
vadi@ubuntu-laptop:~/Systems/vadi-2.1$ sudo ufw status
Firewall loaded
vadi@ubuntu-laptop:~/Systems/vadi-2.1$ sudo ufw status log
Firewall loaded
vadi@ubuntu-laptop:~/Systems/vadi-2.1$ sudo ufw status logging
Firewall loaded
vadi@ubuntu-laptop:~/Systems/vadi-2.1$

That's on plain 8.04

[Emilio (turl)]

On Intrepid it looks like this:

emilio@pcjuan:~$ sudo ufw status
[sudo] password for emilio:
Status: loaded
Logging: on
Default: deny
emilio@pcjuan:~$ sudo ufw version
ufw 0.18.2
Copyright (C) 2008 Canonical Ltd.

Can you write your ufw version? (sudo ufw version)

[Vadim Peretokin (vperetokin)]

ufw 0.16.2.2

[costales (costales)]

I have got 0.16 too.

[costales (costales)]

We should only enable this feature on ufw 0.18

[Emilio (turl)]

That seems sensible.