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> I cannot get iptables logging to work with redhat 7.2.  I have iptables
> working on another box with version 7.1 after searching and figuring out
> that I needed to add "kern.*" to the /var/log/messages line of my
> /etc/syslog.conf file.  But same trick does not seem to work with 7.2.  I
> have verified that the ipt_LOG module is loaded.  klogd is loaded with
> syslog and running.  Any ideas?

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> ok, with no response, I finally figured it out.  turns out that my logging
> entry in iptables firewall read --log-level info and new version of iptables
> 1.2.3-1 chokes on this.   Gives error message that "info" is ambiguous.
> Don't know why since man for syslog.conf still refers to it.  But anyway, if
> you use the numeric expression for "info" which is loglevel 6 it works and
> starts logging.  So I changed from --log-level info to --log-level 6.