Firestarter Logging to iptables.log - Can It Be Disabled?

Question

I have added the firestarter firewall to my Arch 0.7.1 setup. While I appreciate the added protection, it does introduce one problem. Firestarter appears to be writing regular logs to a log file somewhere, /var/log/iptables.log I think.
This means that predicably, about every 6 seconds, my hard disk cranks. This is noisy and annoying. Is there any way to disable this logging, or redirect it somehow such that the hard drive isn't involved every 6 seconds? Even being able to change that interval to a larger one (say once a minute) would be just fine. Thanks!

Answer 1

I suppose firestarter must pass it's parameters to iptables without writing them to disc. Have you tried running firestarter, then running iptables-save when the firewall is running? This will give you the current iptables configuration. If the file is pretty long (which it would be if firestarter has given iptables some commands) you can redirect that output to the file /etc/iptables.rules and run iptables without firestarter. You could then edit the rules file and change the logging interval.