Questions tagged [syslog]

Syslog is a protocol designed to relay system event messages. Questions related to syslog involve event notification and logging capabilities.

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Syslog file missing 22.04

I recently installed Ubuntu 22.04 ARM version on my M2 MacBook Air using Parallels Desktop. I did this because I am taking the Google IT Support certificate through Coursera and wanted access to Linux ...
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Strange access permission behaviour

I have 4 Ubuntu boxes. In one of them Tower1 I have to use sudo to grep /var/log/syslog $ grep CRON /var/log/syslog | grep daily grep: /var/log/syslog: Permission denied $ sudo grep CRON /var/log/...
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Ubuntu 22.04 - Unwanted reboot - log - root cause identification

I'm running Ubuntu 22.04 partitioned with Windows 11 — this is rebooting several times beyond control. I have attached excerpts of log information below. last -x | less >>>> ben tty2 ...
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var/log/syslog growing indefinitely in size

The disk that contains Ubuntu on my computer is 115GB in size. When the disk was 114.7GBfull. I started deleting some files here and there to free up around 5GB. But I noticed the disk was 114GB ...
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How to diagnose/stop gdm-x-session spamming syslog

[Note: this is similar to issue #418 in the gnome gitlab but it happens to me constantly and I'm not running Evolution. I filed this there too, but gnome 3.28.2 is no longer supported there.] I'm not ...
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Syslog download into Atom

I am looking for a way to download syslog from my ubuntu machine into atom. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks
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Is there a way to suppress one specific message from syslog?

I'm getting a lot of Dec 27 08:35:49 htpc kernel: [ 1552.153797] pciehp 0000:00:1c.5:pcie04: Card not present on Slot(0-2) Dec 27 08:35:49 htpc kernel: [ 1552.157744] pciehp 0000:00:1c.5:pcie04: ...
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Avoid logging empty commands in Bash

I am using the following lines at the end of my .bashrc file to log entered bash commands to Syslog: export PROMPT_COMMAND=' RETRN_VAL=$?; if [ -f /tmp/lastoutput.tmp ]; then LAST_OUTPUT=$(cat /...
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How to resolve PCIe Bus Error in Ubuntu 20.04.6

I have installed Ubuntu 20.04.6 on my machine and I am getting lot of below errors: syslog Apr 10 09:34:30 gtx kernel: [ 219.714005] pcieport 0000:00:1d.3: AER: Corrected error received: 0000:00:...
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Why does tail -f stop following /var/log/syslog?

Ubuntu 22.04. I am following /var/log/syslog with the tail -f command. It's a connection via ssh. It will follow the output of syslog for a couple of days, then just stop updating. It just sits there. ...
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Discord (among others) filling syslog. Is there a privacy preserving solution yet?

Discord is constantly spamming the system for a ptrace read that is being repeatedly denied by AppArmor/Snap. This happens for good reason as it is intended to find what games you might be playing. ...
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Ubuntu server random reboots

Yesterday I faced a sudden reboot issue in one of my Ubuntu servers. The server rebooted suddenly, and it was up only after 9 minutes. The configuration and log files of the server are shown below. ...
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Huion graphic tablet driver filling up syslog

I uninstalled all the files and .sh extensions from huion graphic tablet, but my /var/log/syslog file are reaching upto 50-60GB in days and I am reaching to the limit. I tried the solutions here which ...
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Understanding why my system froze

earlier this evening my home server running ubuntu just stopped responding. I first noticed the connection to the outside world had gone. Then noticed server stopped responding to ssh login-requests. ...
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gdm-x-session syslog spam

We upgraded to Ubuntu 22.04 from 16.04 sometime ago, ever since upgrading, I noticed a peculiar issue. Our syslog is completely spammed every second or so, by gdm-x-session with the following ...
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i915 0000:00:02.0: [drm] *ERROR* Atomic update failure on pipe A

This is an error against the internal Intel i915 VGA video card. I see the error on a daily basis in syslog, even though I use the Nvidia card in my system. To see if you have the problem, do the ...
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Log files won't stop writing error messages

It's my first time with Ubuntu 22.04. I've re-done a format, because previously, log files such as syslog and kern.log (at /var/log) kept writing the same error messages (I suppose) and fulled my hard ...
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I cannot clear syslog but I can remove it?

Why doesnt sudo /dev/null > /var/log/syslog and sudo > /var/log/syslog work, while sudo rm /var/log/syslog works?!
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How to solve: gkr-pam: unable to locate daemon control file?

Since i installed 19.04 I start to getting this error in my syslog sent from gdm-session-wor: gkr-pam: unable to locate daemon control file What could be the problem and how to solve it?
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Do wsl Linux Distributions have syslog?

I was playing around with my wsl and tried to locate the syslog. searched in the /var/log directory but i don't see a syslog. any help please?
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Removing Remnants of Skype

Running Ubuntu 22.04 - Uninstalled Skype a few days ago using Ubuntu Software package handler. Today my syslog file had grown to over 200gb, using all my free space. I truncated the file and closed ...
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Why am I receiving error "could not locate CEF message in tcpdump"?

I am attempting to integrate Azure Sentinel and Crowdstrike. I have a VM set up in Azure running Ubuntu 18.04 and have followed the vendor installation guide provided by both Microsoft and Crowdstrike....
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Consecutive networkd-dispatcher error messages for virtual Docker interfaces

My question is much like the issue described here, except I'm using an LXC of Ubuntu 23.04. In that answer, it was marked as solved because I guess the networkd-dispatcher service was patched. However,...
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gvc_mixer_card_get_index: assertion errors filling up the syslog

I'm on a bare-bones, minimum install of Ubuntu 22.04.02 LTS, 64-bit, on a pretty limited machine. With this minimum install, the syslog is filling up with error messages: gnome-shell[4500]: ...
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sending linux log to sunos Syslog file

I would like to write a C program that can send a Log details from Linux to a remote SunoS server. The logs would add in the syslog file at the server side. I have tried some methods such as send() , ...
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Huge syslog file crashing system

Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS in a minute can produce over 200GB syslog file which fills system partition and in a result it is not possible to start the system. It happened second time in few weeks. Tail ...
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Syslog-ng doesn't recognize syslog-ng-mod-http (both version 4.2.0-1)

I'm currently trying to set up syslog-ng as a medium between suricata and elasticsearch. According to the syslog-ng-documentation, the latter requires me to use the "elasticsearch-http"-...
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What causes cpu overload and then server down after log of "Stopped, Starting Snap Daemon" in Ubuntu?

I was running a spring web server in ubuntu on aws ec2. The server unexpectedly encountered a status check error during off-duty hours and forced a restart. From the monitoring tool, it seems that the ...
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Ubuntu 22.04 freezes and showing amdgpu Error in logs

I am running Ubuntu 22.04 for a while now. Everything worked perfectly until today. I am using an AMD Ryzen Lenovo ThinkPad (T14 gen3). My system got stuck two times today. The last message in my logs ...
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Issues launching SpiderOakONE on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS using Cron

I have an instance of Ubuntu 22.04 LTS running on a server. I need SpiderOakONE to launch automatically on reboot without the user having to log in. I decided this would be best suited to cron. I ...
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Ubuntu Studio 22.04 - Startup problems sddm-greeter

I've got a freeshly installed Ubuntu Studio 22.04 LTS. When booting, I've got lot's of errors. Some of them are applied to sddm-greeter: 21.04.23 20:42 sddm-greeter QFont::fromString: Invalid ...
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/var/log/syslog not rotating

Our log file /var/log/syslog does not seem to be rotating, even though the logrotate config /etc/logrotate.d/rsyslog exists: /var/log/syslog { rotate 7 daily missingok notifempty ...
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How can I omit permanenty logged snap livepatch messages?

I'm using Ubuntu 20.04 with Ubuntu Pro. Running the following command: canonical-livepatch disable results in the error: error executing disable: livepatchd error: daemon shutting down I permanently ...
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Where do log messages go with journald and rsyslog

On Ubuntu 18.04 both journald and rsyslog are installed. Both serve the same purpose of collecting log messages and storing them. So we have two programs doing the same work here. What I could find ...
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Ubuntu PC Shutting down overnight - Firefox snap?

The last few nights my PC (running Ubuntu 22.04 LTS) has been shutting down between 11pm and midnight for reasons I do not understand so looked at syslog. This is I think the relevant part: Nov 6 23:...
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Transmission GTK errors - syslog contains millions (literally) of errors daily and in app labels and layouts regularly become confused

I have transmission running on this computer loading at startup. I am running Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and have installed latest updates. When I access the app to inspect torrent properties the labels on the ...
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Logrotate.service failed - syslog and boot.log not getting populated - Ubuntu Server 20.04

Got a new server and installed Ubuntu server 20.04 on it yesterday. Everything was working properly yesterday. Shutdown the server in the night and started it today. Found out syslog and boot.log ...
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Why does UFW keep logging to syslog even when I turn it off through rsyslog settings?

I've uncommented & stop in /etc/rsyslog.d/20-ufw.conf. I've set StandardOutput=null by using systemctl edit ufw which shouldnt help anyway because the syslog messages are sent by a "kernel&...
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Can I disable networkd-dispatcher log messages for Docker interfaces?

I'm using Docker 20.10.14 on Ubuntu 22.04 Server where I'm running a number of containers, and I'm using Watchtower to automatically update the containers. Since I updated to Ubuntu 22.04, I've been ...
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/var/log/syslog suddenly grew to 44 GB due to gnome-shell (actually: Chromium or Chrome) error logs

Why is gnome-shell writing 17783 lines per second of these errors to my /var/log/syslog file?: gnome-shell: ERROR:broker_posix.cc(46)] Received unexpected number of handles gnome-shell: ERROR:...
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Where are Upstart log messages on Ubuntu 13.X?

On Ubuntu 12.04, I can find Upstart log messages in /var/log/syslog. Commands: # initctl log-priority info # initctl emit hello Log: Apr 1 01:56:56 precise64 kernel: [ 8365.820425] init: ...
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Unable to run System Log on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

I am having a difficult time to run syslog GUI. I added a new filter in the System Log. What I did is: click the button at the top right of the GUI window (the button with a gear icon). Then, click ...
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huge kern.log and syslog files:

Ubuntu 22.04, when I analyzed the disk space, just realized that my kern.log and syslog files are getting huge, taking gigabytes of my disk space. When I opened the files, I saw a similar pattern in ...
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How to log only the message in syslog-ng?

In syslog-ng.conf I have the following: source s_imp { tcp(ip("localhost") port(514)); }; filter f_imp {program("imp");}; destination d_imp {file("/home/rpr/syslog.log");}; log {source(s_imp); ...
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How do I stop and remove KDE Baloo that is broken and filling up my syslog file?

KDE baloo has recently caused rsyslog to start logging many errors. Part of 'Syslog' Mar 3 15:01:53 harry-S340 baloo_file.desktop[2982]: org.kde.baloo.engine: PositionDB::put MDB_BAD_TXN: ...
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I deleted a 300GB "syslog.1" file in "/var/log/", because it had filled my disk drive. However, the disk space remains used [duplicate]

I was prompted that I was running low on disk space, so I checked my disk useage and found a "syslog.1" file that was over 300GB. When I opened the file it was an endless stream of some ...
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Is there a command to show the boot messages?

Is there a command to show the boot messages, which are normally shown on system startup on the console? dmesg gives only the kernel messages and less /var/log/syslog shows too much information.
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Syslog is flooded by ACPI error induced by kernel

I am using Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS (kernel version 5.15.0) on Dell Inspiron 15 5510, and I found that the battery lifetime became significantly shorter since some time this month. Sometimes the computer ...
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Upgraded remove server from Ubuntu 18.0.4 LTS to 22.0.4 LTS - now server keeps rebooting (Lassie)

I recently upgraded my remote Linode, an Ubuntu 18.0.4 LTS server, to Ubuntu 22.0.4 LTS. Ever since then, Lassie keeps rebooting my server, roughly, every 15 minutes. I have looked into both /var/log/...
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truncate syslog - is the info in that log lost irretrievably?

I remember using this to get syslog emptied so I could view it more easily. But does that mean than any errors, etc in syslog are irretrievably lost? Thanks. sudo truncate -s 0 /var/log/syslog

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