Turn off the firewall log

 

Turn off the firewall log

12. Have you enabled the firewall (which is recommended)? Then you'll probably never look at its logs, so it won't hurt to turn off all logging by the firewall. Especially because it can be rather spammy sometimes. Turning off its log can save some system resources and disk space, and can be done like this:

a. Launch a terminal window.
(You can launch a terminal window like this: *Click*)

b. Copy/paste this blue line into the terminal:

sudo ufw logging off

Press Enter. Type your password when prompted. In Ubuntu this remains entirely invisible, not even dots will show when you type it, that's normal. In Mint this has changed: you'll see asterisks when you type. Press Enter again.

Regrets? Then turn firewall logging on again like this

12.1. Do you want to enable logging by the firewall again? Then use the following terminal command to turn firewall logging on again with the default amount of activity (low):

sudo ufw logging low

All should be then, as it was before.