Firestarter Log Problem on 12.04 LTS

[Michele S]

Hello, when i launch firestarter i get this error:

Firestarter-WARNING **: Log file not found or access denied.
Firewall log monitoring disabled.

I followed this instructions:

http://askubuntu.com/questions/52817...ration-program

editing (with "root" account) the file /etc/rsyslog.d/50-default.conf

from

#*.=info;*.=notice;*.=warn;\
# auth,authpriv.none;\
# cron,daemon.none;\
# mail,news.none -/var/log/messages

to

*.=info;*.=notice;*.=warn;\
auth,authpriv.none;\
cron,daemon.none;\
mail,news.none -/var/log/messages

Then i restarted rsyslog and also rebooted but i get the same message...

Can someone help me?

[haqking]

yes dont use firestarter, its an out of date and often buggy package.

IPTables is the built in firewall in Linux and most users use UFW or GUFW to manage it.

See here Dangertux firewall guide in Ubuntu

If you decide to go down this route then remove firestarter completely as it conflicts.

Peace

[Michele S]

I solved the problem. Before doing that steps i mentioned first, i created a dir:

sudo su
cd /var/log/
mkdir messages

Well, i thought that the log file has to be saved in the messages directory, but it was wrong, messages is the name of the log file.

Removing the directory i solved the problem:

rmdir messages
service rsyslog restart

[haqking]

I solved the problem. Before doing that steps i mentioned first, i created a dir:

sudo su
cd /var/log/
mkdir messages

Well, i thought that the log file has to be saved in the messages directory, but it was wrong, messages is the name of the log file.

Removing the directory i solved the problem:

rmdir messages
service rsyslog restart

cool glad you got it working.

Peace

[Michele S]

cool glad you got it working.

Peace

Yeah, thanks!

[linuxcandy]

Need to be root to restart rsyslog.

sudo service rsyslog restart

[Molech]

Ok.
Now I don't get more any error messages, but my events list is empty.
What now?