RE: [FW1] yet another problem.....

[ns dillon <nsdillon@FW1-NOSPAMyahoo.com>]

Hi,
I have tried the command, but however it still did not
work... the same error message comes up... 

Any other ways to do it....??

Thanks dear buddies...!!! 

--- "Frost, Timothy E" <timothy.frost@eds.com> wrote:
> 
> To switch logs on a remote module, you run the
> command
> 	fw logswitch -h <firewall> 
> on the MANAGEMENT station, where <firewall> is the
> name of the firewall
> module.  You can them delete the switched log from
> the firewall (or do
> anything else with it that is required by your site
> policies;-) 
> 
> If the logs are ONLY on the firewall module, then
> use
> 	fw logswitch -h <firewall> - 
> to switch logs, and transfer them to the management
> station.  ( Using +
> instead of - will copy them, leaving a copy of the
> log in the firewall's
> logs directory as well as a copy on the management
> station).
> 
> The name on the management station will look like
> 	<firewall>.<timestamp>.log
> 
> 
> 
> hope this helps
> 
> T
> 
> -- 
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> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ns dillon [mailto:nsdillon@yahoo.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2001 5:43 PM
> To: fw-1-mailinglist@lists.us.checkpoint.com
> Subject: [FW1] yet another problem.....
> 
> 
> 
> Hi again my dear Gurus....!!
> 
> I have 2 firewall Modules installed on 2 Solaris
> boxes
> and Firewall Management running on WIN2K.... 
> 
> From my understanding all the firewall logs will be
> stored on the Firewall Management Modules and not on
> the Firewall module... But however i notice that the
> Firewall modules stores files locally as well... 
> 
> So i have two copies of log files... One on the
> Firewall Module and another on the Management
> Module..
> 
> It is not a problem maintaining the logs on the
> Management module as the "fw logswitch" command
> works
> fine...
> 
> My problem is on the maintanance of the Log Files on
> the Firewall module.... The "fw logswitch" command
> does not work.. Message given is 
> No matter which directory i run it from it is still
> the same... 
> 
> I need your help on this one.. how do i make it work
> and what is the impact if i manually remove the log
> files by using "rm fw.log"....
> 
> Pls pls help....Thanks a million to all the
> Gurus..!!
> 
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