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* On Fri, Jul 14, 2000 at 10:29:10AM -0700, Mike Starke wrote:
> 1. I have been running minicom to capture all the calls from our
> phone system into /dev/ttyS1. Works good, but I have been wondering
> if there is another way to do this as a background process and
> have the info captured to a file.  I have tried: 'minicom -C file &'
> but minicom doesn't flush out to the file consistently. Any ideas?
> 
> 2. I would like to begin tracking the volume going thru my 'firewall'
> by logging all the packets. I used to use the accounting (A, I beleive)
> rule in ipfwadm in the older kernel, but with ipchains I am having
> a tough time.  I know this should be simple, but could someone
> throw  me a bone?
> 
> Mike
> mgcon@getnet.com
> http://www.getnet.com/~mgcon
> Phoenix, AZ
> USA