Firewall Messages

[DS <redskins () comcast net>]

I and others I know are getting console Firewall traffic and its rather
> annoying since we work from the console a lot and not X, these messages
> should be going to /var/log/messages (and some indeed do) but instead some
> get sent to console and we are clueless as to why.
>
> Thx
>
> Doc
>
> OS= Redhat 7.2
> Firewall= IPtables
>
> /etc/syslog.conf=
>
> # Log all kernel messages to the console.
> # Logging much else clutters up the screen.
> #kern.*                                                 /dev/console
>
> # Log anything (except mail) of level info or higher.
> # Don't log private authentication messages!
> *.info;mail.none;authpriv.none;cron.none                /var/log/messages
>
> # The authpriv file has restricted access.
> authpriv.*                                              /var/log/secure
>
> # Log all the mail messages in one place.
> mail.*                                                  /var/log/maillog
>
>
> # Log cron stuff
> cron.*                                                  /var/log/cron
>
> # Everybody gets emergency messages
> *.emerg                                                 *
>
> # Save news errors of level crit and higher in a special file.
> uucp,news.crit                                          /var/log/spooler
>
> # Save boot messages also to boot.log
> local7.*                                                /var/log/boot.log



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