A log is a record of events during a particular time range. Questions about interpreting logs on Ubuntu or controlling logging.
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How can I access debug info for failing VPN connection via Network Manager?
I have a VPN connection set up via the Network Manager. Today it failed because I forgot make the key files accessible, once I made them accessible, it worked. Yay!
But, what if I hadn't remembered? ...
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keylogger with persian and english keymap on ubuntu
I want to log which characters I use most use in a day and to log all pressed keys in all application.
How I do this in ubuntu?
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Text/Log Viewer that that will allow filtering by words/phrases?
I'm looking for a GUI-based text/log viewer that will allow to only display lines that contain particular phrases/words/characters. The logs may not necessarily by OS related but from 3rd party ...
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Ubuntu Server Random Lockups and crashes on dist-upgrades/upgrades and package installs [closed]
Ubuntu Server Random Lockups and crashes on dist-upgrades/upgrades and package installs its an old box which i have 2 of and recently decided to move from debian 6 over to 12.04 ubuntu for a change ...
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Why is ufw logging 'BLOCK' messages regarding a port for which ufw is configured to 'ALLOW' connections?
Here's an example log message:
May 25 10:36:07 myserver kernel: [7057243.392334] [UFW BLOCK] IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=00:02:55:67:82:eb:00:06:b1:3a:ef:62:08:00 SRC=69.197.128.26 DST=192.168.100.101 LEN=44 ...
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failed to start apache2 gracefully
Here is a new installation of apache2 on a Ubuntu 12.04 machine (home user)
I am trying to start the service apache2 after creating a file in sites-available directory and enabling the website I am ...
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“service <anything> <start, stop, restart, status>” doesn't show any error message
I setup 13.04 64bit on a server, installed Nginx from their ppa (ppa:nginx/stable). I made some changes in the config file, but had some syntax errors in it. When I tried to restart/start service ...
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How to disable the log files?
To be specific I want to stop the kern.log and syslog files. I just installed Xunbuntu about 2 days ago and have no experience with this OS.
I know they are supposedly important, but I have a ...
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File ownership in 13.04 set to messagebus instead of syslog for /var/log files
Forgive me if this has been asked and answered already, I did search and couldn't find anything.
On 12.10, /var/log files were written to. auth.log, syslog, and others. However, both fresh install ...
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Is there a way to tell which packages I've installed via apt-get, minus the auto-installed ones?
I try to keep a log of the programs I installed via apt-get in the command line to carry them to my next Ubuntu installation. The thing is sometimes I install something to see if it suits me. After ...
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Exclude Specific User From '/var/log/auth.log'
I am currently setting up a VPS and was wondering if there is any way at all for me to exclude a specific user from being logged to /var/log/auth.log?
Doing the same for lastlog and every other log ...
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How to change boot text colors in Ubuntu 13.04
I like to change my boot text colours. For example * Starting Service foo [ OK ] change [ OK ] colour to green. I know old way is to edit lsb-base-logging.sh. But it is not working now. Can anyone ...
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Posting syslog kernlog xorg.0.log online - how to delete private data
I have heard that log files contains private data. How can I remove them and what should I remove from them?
Those are very long files so maybe if I know what to remove I can use a script o something ...
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Is there a log of package management activity like recent removals?
Is there a log that shows recent activity done by the package management, like apt-get, dpkg, synaptics?
For example, you removed a bunch of packages but realized that a not-tracked application (for ...
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Help me please with these log files
please whats mean that on var/log/user.log
Mar 18 10:09:06 hoover RightScale: Timezone set to America/Los_Angeles
Mar 18 10:11:10 hoover RightScale: Timezone set to America/Los_Angeles
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Where do I find the Insync log file?
When contacting the customer service of Insync they ask to send the logs where do I find them in Ubuntu?
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Visualize computer usage
I am trying to measure how much I use my laptop per day and if this changes over time. Besides that, I want to visualize my usage in a 'diurnal' plot (I think that's how you'd call it).
I tried ...
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Is there in ubuntu repository monitoring alternative to nagios?
I would like to run some kind of service monitoring for my server and few other servers/services. Basically I want to monitor availability and send mail, when avail. is bad. Is there any simple ...
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How to manage different identities on the internet?
On the internet I'm using different accounts. One is my real self where, while all the other I use to "fool arounnd" (not literally though) on the internet.
Is there an easy way to How to manage ...
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Software Updater Log 13.04
I ran the Software Updater and noticed a message which indicated that my system may be broken and to run a certain command to fix it. Of course I missed the command and even more strange, the ...
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Somebody help me with my paranoia
I tend to be on the paranoid side, and for some time there are messages in my log file that tend to get me going close to the edge of sanity. Could someone explain the following in my auth.log file ...
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Where is the cron / crontab log?
I want to verify if my cron job is executing and what time. I believe there is a log for my sudo crontab -e jobs, but where?
I searched google and it I found references to look in /var/log ...
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switch off/suspend time log
How do I find out when my computer went to sleep the last time? Like I woke up now and don't remember when the party finished and music stopped playing yesterday. Is there a log file for that? Issuing ...
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firefox about:sync-log gives error.sync.failed
I've reset my firefox sync password, but log errors persist when trying to sync:
1368328240529 Sync.ErrorHandler DEBUG Flushing file log.
1368328240531 Sync.Service DEBUG Exception: ...
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Where does VNC store its logfiles?
I've been getting a lot of VNC login attempts lately (it's probably because of that home server I set up a while back,) and I was just wondering where the access logs are.
The directory ~/.vnc doesn't ...
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How can I read NotifyOSD messages after they are displayed?
I'd like to read a list of messages displayed by notify-osd from time to time. I'm using 12.04 still, if it matters. Is this possible?
These two questions from 2010 indicate that a log file should ...
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How can I view stdout/stderr of a startup application?
Some of the commands that I have in Startup Applications do not start properly when I login. (In particular I am having trouble with gtk-redshift.) In order to debug, I would like to be able to view ...
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Log file locations for troubleshooting a hard system freeze
Since Ubuntu 12.04, I've tried every version available on my work desktop and they've all had the same bug/problem: My system freezes at seemingly random times and it is completely unresponsive (can't ...
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12.04LTS log in fails
I have been using ubuntu for years, but I am ICT challenged. 12.04LTS recently crashed while I was on the interweb. Now, when i try to boot, it asks me to log in. Never had to do this before, and the ...
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Can I limit the size of ~/.xsession-errors?
Is there some way to limit size of .xsession-errors.?
I'm getting huge numbers of one particular debug information messages and it has blown the file size up to 2.8 GB (over many months). The ...
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How to log memory usage per minute on Ubuntu Server?
I checked few programs such as htop or top command but couldn't find any features for logging per minute.
Is there a way to do that for tracking memory issues ?
edit: I was using linode and decided ...
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When an application crash without output an error, is there a log that i can check?
Sometimes it happen that some application crash without give no output error (conky in my case, probably is one of my configuration that is incorrect).
Is there somewhere a error log that I can check ...
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Virtualbox hard resets host machine
My host is - ubuntu 12.10 x64 Desktop with latest virtualbox installed.
Guest OS is Ubuntu 12.10 x64 server edition.
I execute this virtual machine as root user on Ubuntu host machine to connect ...
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How can I inspect Upstart Job States Transitions Using log file?
I want to have a look at the states transitions using the method described here:
http://upstart.ubuntu.com/cookbook/#viewing-state-transitions.
This is what I do:
# initctl log-priority debug
# ...
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My user ID and password is correct: can not log in to Ubuntu 12.04
I have a dual boot in machine with windows7 and Ubuntu.
While I was installing Ubuntu, it prompted me for a name and a password 2 times. I gave a user name and put my password 2 times and wrote it ...
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Thousands of pam_unix log entries in logwatch
My logwatch reports, within the CRON section, contain thousands of entries like those below. How can I either reduce the number of log entries OR have logwatch ignore them?
Jan 30 18:49:01 ota3 ...
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Turning computer on log?
Is there a way to find out when my computer was turned on even if user was not successful on logging in?
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ubuntu is not able to start up with Bluetooth error
I used to have dual system on my laptop windows 7 and ubuntu. when I add a SSD to my laptop I decide to install windows8 and ubuntu in my new SSD. I format the old partions, one for windows 7 and one ...
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Which log will tell me why my computer shut down?
I was at school SSHing to my homebox. All of a sudden, my connection was closed. Attempting to reconnect failed. When I returned home, I discovered that my computer was off.
Nobody was at my house ...
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Where are the OpenVPN connection logs and configuration files?
I have problem connecting to OpenVPN server. Where are OpenVPN log files and how do I find the connection details?
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Timestamp appears to be wrong on some log files
When I use scp to remotely check my server logs, the "last changed" timestamp on some files appears to be set in the future. I've double checked the local time and timezone settings on both my server ...
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syslog kernlog xorg.0.log - is it safe to post them
Is it safe to post syslog kernlog xorg.o.log from /var/log online to solve a problem with ubuntu system?
There is private content in there that other people should not see?
Thanks
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Exim PanicLog has Non-Zero Size…?
I'm getting the following error from my Ubuntu server:
exim paniclog /var/log/exim4/paniclog on (my server FQDN) has non-zero size, mail system might be broken.
I found a solution on the web here. ...
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What log shall I explore to discover cause of “Couldn't Generate PGP Key”?
While attempting to join the U+1 and download the code of conduct I followed the instructions on generating a public key and received the subj message.
Ubuntu 12.10
Gnome session fall back
chromium ...
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How I can connect the syslog-ng with a mysql database?
Hi guys I want to use a syslog-ng server for logging data from the firewall and I get Data from the Firewall in the file /var/firewall.log but now I want that the logs go to a database. For this I ...
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Why is drop box always trying and failing to connect to me on a high port in iptables logs?
Continually getting message in logs:
IPTables Packet Dropped: IN=eth1 OUT= MAC=c4:17:fe:65:51:f8:20:76:00:aa:98:78:08:00
SRC=199.47.216.148 DST=192.168.1.102 LEN=218 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=54 ...
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Does MaaS have any log?
Using following articles,
Testing MAAS
Ubuntu Cloud Infrastructure with MAAS and Juju
I tried to setup Ubuntu Server 12.04's private cloud in a virtual environment provided by KVM and ...
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How can I tell what date Ubuntu was installed?
is there a command which will output the date that ubuntu (or any distribution) was installed?
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GUI for watching logs (tail and grep)
Could you recommend a GUI application with powerful log watching capabilities?
Generally it would work as tail -f in GUI, but on top of that following features would be very useful:
filtering out ...
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See IP addresses that access my computer
How can I see time/date/ip address of the computers that accessed my computer, and is it possible to see if they accessed any (and which) files that I share using samba?
Is there any samba log file?
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