logging & IPTABLES

[Guest]

Hi,
maybe I'm not searching correctly, but I haven't been able to find any useful documentation on logging and IPTABLES. Everything I find assumes you already have a solid knowledge, which is absolutely not my case.
Please help me find complete information/tutorials on the following:

LOGS
- a complete list of all the possible loggings for which you can configure Debian;
- how to set up logging (meaning how to instruct Debian to log something);
- how to know which logs are active on the system;
- how to interpret log results (error messages etc..);

IPTABLES
- is there a configuration file for this? Somewhere you can look to know the current settings?
- a complete list of all the possible configuration settings of IPTABLES + instructions on how to configure it;
- how to set up logging;

Thank you very much for any help. I repeat, I am not asking to receive answers from you, just some links to places where I can learn how to do everything listed above. Some places meant for novices, not for experts.

[Harold]

Firewalling (IPTables) is the least intuitive part of Linux that I've dealt with. If someone is aware of a lucent tutorial, I would love to know about it also. In the meantime, take a look at www.shorewall.net. It gets real deep real fast, but at least it will enable you to get a firewall up and running.

Logging? The Linux Administration Handbook has a chapter on it. It's... a place to start. :-/

[Guest]

Firewalling (IPTables) is the least intuitive part of Linux that I've dealt with. If someone is aware of a lucent tutorial, I would love to know about it also.

I just found this tutorial, I still haven't gone into it, but lots of people are recommending it, so it should be good:

http://iptables-tutorial.frozentux.net/

Thanks a lot for all the help you have given me and bye