# SFW2 log files
**URL:** https://forums.suse.com/t/sfw2-log-files/22617
**Category:** SLES Networking
**Created:** [May 11, 2012, 11:28pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/sfw2-log-files/22617 "2012-05-11T23:28:50Z")
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### Author:  [@davidschuetz](https://forums.suse.com/u/davidschuetz)
#### Post date: [May 11, 2012, 11:28pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/sfw2-log-files/22617/1 "2012-05-11T23:28:50Z")
Hi everybody,
I hope I am posting in the correct location because my issue could be related to hardware not networking and firewall.
If I type the command dmesg
the server returns a lot of messages like this:
SFW2-INext-DROP-DEFLT IN=eth0…
SFW2-INext-ACC-TCP IN=eth0…
so much in fact that the only messages I see start with “SFW2-”
I understand that these messages are coming from the firewall dropping or accepting traffic.
My question is, how can I redirect these messages so they do not fill up dmesg?
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP2 (x86\_64)
Thank you.
David
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### Author:  [@malcolmlewis](https://forums.suse.com/u/malcolmlewis)
#### Post date: [May 11, 2012, 11:48pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/sfw2-log-files/22617/2 "2012-05-11T23:48:33Z")
> [@davidschuetz](#):
>
> Hi everybody,
> I hope I am posting in the correct location because my issue could be
> related to hardware not networking and firewall.
>
> If I type the command dmesg
> the server returns a lot of messages like this:
> SFW2-INext-DROP-DEFLT IN=eth0…
> SFW2-INext-ACC-TCP IN=eth0…
> so much in fact that the only messages I see start with “SFW2-”
>
> I understand that these messages are coming from the firewall dropping
> or accepting traffic.
>
> My question is, how can I redirect these messages so they do not fill
> up dmesg?
>
> SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP2 (x86\_64)
>
> Thank you.
> David
Hi
Use YaST log viewer and look at the specific log, eg messages. You can
set a filter there as well.
Else you can just dmesg |grep -v “SFW2”
–
Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
openSUSE 12.1 (x86\_64) Kernel 3.1.10-1.9-desktop
up 0:59, 3 users, load average: 0.01, 0.02, 0.05
CPU Intel i5 CPU M520@2.40GHz | Intel Arrandale GPU