Firewalld logging

[Magus]

Hi, I’ve been looking for this for a day or two, but I seem I can’t find a way to view the firewalld’s log files.
I’ve found one under /var/log/firewalld but its empty.

How do I check the logs? It would be the best if there would be a GUI solution for this, but of course terminal is ok too.

My goal is that I’m trying to find all the connections my firewall filtered or blocked just as it was logged in ufw.

Thanks in advance.

[pebcak]

Perhaps you would need to look into /etc/firewalld/firewalld.conf and enable logging.

LogDenied

Add logging rules right before reject and drop rules in the INPUT, FORWARD and OUTPUT chains for the default rules and also final reject and drop rules in zones for the configured link-layer packet type. The possible values are: all, unicast, broadcast, multicast and off. The default setting is off, which disables the logging.
https://man.archlinux.org/man/firewalld.conf.5.en

[Cphusion]

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Uncomplicated_Firewall#GUI_frontends
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Firewalld#Usage

GUI is available as firewall-config which comes with firewalld package.

[Magus]

@pebcak

Perhaps you would need to look into /etc/firewalld/firewalld.conf and enable logging.

Thank you very much, that’s the solution.

@Cphusion

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Uncomplicated_Firewall#GUI_frontends
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Firewalld#Usage

GUI is available as firewall-config which comes with firewalld package.

Thanks for your reply, don’t get me wrong but I knew that there was a GUI for the firewalld itself, but what I meant is that I was looking for a GUI solution to open up the firewall’s logfile itself (but I might have missed it out, don’t hesitate to share if you see such button that could list the logfile aswell)

[Cphusion]

@Magus

Thanks for your reply, don’t get me wrong but I knew that there was a GUI for the firewalld itself, but what I meant is that I was looking for a GUI solution to open up the firewall’s logfile itself (but I might have missed it out, don’t hesitate to share if you see such button that could list the logfile aswell)

It’s fine, I haven’t used a gui for anything related firewall in a while. I was kind of assuming it would be integrated into the firewall gui app, so it was my bad for not having checked it myself first.