Force ufw firewall to log only to a specific log file?

[kimchi]

How can I make ufw log only to a specific log file, such as "/var/log/ufw.log"?

The ufw man page says "Logged packets use the LOG_KERN syslog facility." This seems to redundantly fill up "/var/log/ufw.log", /var/log/kern.log and /var/log/messages with identical ufw log entries. I have ufw logging set to low. There doesn't seem to be any more log configuration options, either via the ufw command line or the handful of ufw configuration files I found.

[wojox]

Try and run

cat /var/log/messages | grep UFW

You turned it on right?

sudo ufw logging on

[kimchi]

You turned it on right?

Yes... logging is definitely working. Like I said, currently it's logging to multiple files, filling up messages and kern.log with identical entries as ufw.log.

I want to only log to ufw.log.

[kimchi]

*bump*

I've been Googling and I haven't really found anything helpful other than a couple others complaining about the same thing.

[zang3tsu]

This might be helpful:

http://vincom2.wordpress.com/2010/04...erate-logfile/

I tested it and it works.