From: William Hunt on
On Tue, 13 Apr 2010, Eef Hartman wrote:
> William Hunt <wjh(a)prv8.net> wrote:
>> Linux version 2.6.18-164.2.1.el5.028stab066.10 (root(a)rhel5-64-build)
> As you can see that is a reasonably (though some patches out-of-date)
> recent Red Hat Enterprise Linux (cq CentOS) 5.4 kernel (current version
[...]

SOLVED!

My hunch was wrong - the problem had nothing to do with
the RH patched kernel after all.

Problem was caused by /etc/rc.d/rc.syslog having comments disabling
klogd. Removing the comments and restarting rc.syslog re-enabled
klogd and now the iptables "-j LOG" messages correctly appear in
logfiles according to /etc/syslog.conf.


Solution thanks to VPS host provider's support.

Thanks to all from AOLS who offered me their good help.

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William Hunt, Portland Oregon USA