[wellylug] messages file - was: traffic accounting]

[Cliff Pratt]

William Hamilton wrote:
> 
> William Hamilton wrote:
>> Hi all looking for some comments as to what traffic accounting 
>> software people are using.  I have a client with multiple machines 
>> internally with a shorewall firewall.  They would like to start 
>> accounting for traffic volumes, volume and type of data.
>>
>> Any suggestions.  I can use accounting in shorewall but is there 
>> anything better and easier to report on?
>>
>  >Adding to my own email..  they are looking to track usage down to each
>  >internal machine.
> 
> Once again adding to my email BUT a new one almost.  Having setup 
> accounting within shorewall I found that /var/log/messages is being 
> created as a directory NOT as a file (this making logging difficult).
> 
> Any ideas as to why this is happening and how to fix?  The setup is 
> fairly new, not far of base Debian stable build (addition of a firewall 
> packages etc).
> 
Strange! I have a standard Debian setup with Shorewall and I don't see 
that. What is in the /var/log/messages directory?

Cheers,

Cliff