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Logging appears to be broken in Ubuntu 16.04

Asked by spinylumpsucker

Using the same /etc/kismet/kismet.conf file, running 16.04 Kismet package kismet_server binary fails to generate logging information while compiling/running a current version from https://github.com/kismetwireless/kismet does.

Is this a known bug or an non-obvious feature of 16.04?

Relevant log configuration values follow:

logprefix=/tmp
logtypes=dump,network,csv,xml,weak,cisco,gps
noiselog=false
corruptlog=true
beaconlog=true
phylog=true
mangledatalog=true
dumptype=wiretap
dumplimit=0
logdefault=Kismet
logtemplate=%n-%D-%i.%l

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

If you change the log prefix to /log does it help?

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spinylumpsucker (bill-nec-labs) said : 		#2

Location of the logs (logprefix) including "logprefix=/log" made no difference.

However I had reason to install 16.04 onto a differing system and to run Kismet tests there using the same USB WiFi transceiver. Logging in this second instance was not an issue.

I plan to go back and do some comparisons to see how the two installations differ.

So assume this issue was operator error.