Questions tagged [logging]
Adding messages, mostly warnings and/or errors, to a log file.
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rsyslog read log files and send to rsyslog file and rsyslogserver
Hi I need to send logs to rsyslog server in particular I need to send airflow logs and docker logs.
I am using rsyslog v8.2204.1 on Ubuntu 20.04.4 LTS.
For docker I installed the module: rsyslog-...
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Change `sshd` log file with `rsyslog`
I want to change the location of sshd logging to an external volume in order to prevent filling up the boot volume. What I thought would work – create /etc/rsyslog.d/sshd.conf with a directive to use ...
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How to log (audit) events when a USB drive has been written to or modified
Within windows, there is a setting within GPO to Audit Removable Storage. This will provide logging information to the Event Viewer within Windows. I am looking to recreate this same process on the ...
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msmtp logging doesn't work in /var/log/mail/[logfile].log
Good day
I'm using msmtp to send mails. I have different accounts that log to different logfiles. Unfortunately whenever it tries to log the following error appears:
send-mail: cannot log to /var/log/...
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password displayed on loggin screen but not on purpose
I'm under ubuntu 18.04.1 and I face this issue:
sometimes, not always, when I loggin back, my password is displayed.
I wonder why this happens.
I know that this "password revealation feature"...
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Do I have log4j on my Ubuntu 18.04.6?
I'm obviously worried about this vulnerability, but I wonder if I even have this library on my machine?
The machine is a webserver running a couple of node expressjs frameworks over nginx, plus a ...
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How can I view the stdout / stderr from the bash login shell?
I'm trying to debug a strange issue with my ~/.bash_profile, and I'd like to be able to see if there are any errors / etc printed when it's run. Is there some log or such somewhere that contains the ...
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Syslog : I am trying to generate separate iptables.log file for IPTABLES,
My Ubuntu 20.4 LTS My efforts are as follows:-
1.) Created IPTABLES rules with LOGGING by mentioning --log-prefix="IPTABLES-BLOCKED: " Logs are successfully generated by iptables, I have ...
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var/system/journal logs flooded with i2c_hid i2c_hid_get_input: incomplete report (14/65535)
So for the last day or two, DiskUsage keeps complaining about no disk space on my root / partition.
I can mitigate this issue by editing the /etc/systemd/journald.conf and setting the SystemMaxUse=...
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UFW not logging on fresh 20.04 install
I am not getting any UFW logs in /var/log/ufw.log.
I have tried everything on
UFW is not logging how do I troubleshoot?
https://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-2380393.html
https://serverfault....
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Writing to /var/log/auth.log
We'd like an application to write entries to /var/log/auth.log
Is there any kind of interface to allow us to do this?
thanks for any pointers.
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How to prevent BIND logging queries matching a regular expression?
I am currently running BIND named on my Internet facing servers to respond to authoritative query requests for my domains. So, I have configured /etc/bind/named.conf.local as follows to log all ...
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Log process for outgoing connections
Is there an easy way to set up logging of all outgoing connections to certain ports, for example? Trying to figure out which programs/processes causes certain outbound connections.
Server is already ...
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Ubuntu randomly reboots on new computer without logging any relevant events; how can I find out what's going on?
I'm having an issue with a new computer; it randomly reboots. Not a crash...just, Like someone pulled the plug.
No logs are recording any events, they just...stop. Is there a way to force Ubuntu ...
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Help! Ubuntu 20.04 Server is printing kernel messages to my console
after setting up a fresh install of Ubuntu 20.04 server, exactly every 5 minutes and 11 seconds my console shows the following message, which is printed above everything on the screen:
Message from ...
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How to Solve Increasing Size of MySQL Binlog Files Problem?
MySQL Binlog files count is increasing day by day and their size is increasing in gigabytes. How can I stop the increasing size of binlog files? They are fulling the disc space.
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How to print in current terminal new logs arriving in a logfile?
I can't find the answer to my question, and I don't know how to proceed...
I would like to print in my current terminal (possibly only for a specific user) new logs added to a logfile, without running ...
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Accessing Cronjob Log files on AWS EC2 instance
I would like to start by expressing my appreciation to any help I receive. I am very new to AWS and ubuntu servers.
I run a daily python job on my EC2 instance and it fails every Friday for some ...
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What should I do if my server is under the attack?
I have a mail server on Ubuntu 20.04. Yesterday I set up UFW firewall which looks like:
root@vmi514622:~# ufw status verbose
Status: active
Logging: on (low)
Default: deny (incoming), allow (outgoing),...
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Cron job & logger commands
I have a backup cron job that rsync files between 2 locations. To get some logged output that it has run, the job has this syntax:
#!/bin/bash
logger "Seafile File System Backup Started"
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log everything from a byobu session
I am looking for a way how to preserve all console input and output of byobu sessions.
I am aware of these questions:
How to save scrollback history in byobu?
how can I log the session with byobu
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how do i enable boot logging on ubuntu?
perhaps its server envy, but I am looking around on a linux server hard drive and saw a file called "bootlog" which holds entries like:
boot Sat May 5 02:50:51 2018
shutdown Thu ...
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Internet connection monitor with logging
We are having intermittent issues with our internet connection in a community house of nine people. It seems to cut out for short intervals so I am looking for an app to test connectivity at regular ...
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Logging inputs and outputs in terminal without weird characters
I'm looking for a way to log all the input and output on terminal during a session, but I can't properly find an answer to do it. This this post suggested using script screen.log to do so and it seems ...
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Lines of Log Files referenced by Logwatch Warnings (Ubuntu Server 18.04)
How do I find specific lines in Log Files that are referenced by Ubuntu Logwatch like the ones marked below... within Amavis and postfix?
Going by date I can grep all the instances of "warning&...
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How to separate logs from syslog on microstack
I have microstack up an d running.
I want to debug a problem, but all logs are in syslog, which is a pain, because its way too much data.
Openstack defaults every service to a different logfile, but ...
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Logging sensors data every second
I'm new to this forum, so if I've made something wrong, please tell me.
I made some research, but I can't understand the correct answer to my problem.
I need to save CPU Temp, load and fan speed in ...
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Newly compiled kernel hangs at boot with no output
I need to develop some stuff in the kernel for my honours project but im stuck at simply getting a stock kernel to compile and boot.
I've followed a few recipes but all of them just result in the ...
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Why does the output of journalctl sometimes include 'skipping...'
For example :
journalctl -r
-- Logs begin at Thu 2020-04-23 18:53:52 PDT, end at Thu 2020-07-02 10:40:23 PDT. --
lines removed by me for this post
Jul 01 16:15:55 asus at-spi-bus-launcher[2801]: ...
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-bash: echo: write error: No such file or directory
I am trying to log iptables actions so I can trouble shoot why a FORWARD rule isn't working and I need to run this command:
echo ipt_LOG >/proc/sys/net/netfilter/nf_log/2
this is after loading ...
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Why won't all getssl output log from cron
I have a LAMP server set up to serve a handful of sites, and I am using the getssl script to create the LetsEncrypt certs for those sites.
I had set up a cron job to renew those certs as recommended, ...
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Where is location of a log file of chromium on Ubuntu 19.10?
I can't found a chromium log file in default location, Where is it?
According to following page, default location is ~/.config/chromium .
But there is no log file in this directory.
Chromium User Data ...
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Exclude entries from being written to syslog
Question:
I want a specific log message (pattern) to be written to syslog. How can I achieve that?
Example:
I imagine a solution like writing something like this in the appropriate logfile:
exclude ...
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Log disks spin up and spin down
I have a file / media server running on Ubuntu 18.04. It has 1 SSD on which Ubuntu is installed and 4 HDD's for various files.
I found some information on how to log the disks activities and that ...
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Logging everything to diagnose random shut downs
My laptop started randomly shutting down. For example, I'm skyping and then -boom- all of the sudden the screen goes black and it has shut down. Once I restart it, everything seems to work as normal. ...
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Logging broke for authentication only
I currently am unable to have authentication attempts logged in /var/log/auth.log . Everything was working properly and log files were rotated as expected until last night issue.
My Ubuntu server ...
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My system is creating 1GB of syslog file Docker errors per minute
I am using Ubuntu 18.04. Recently whenever I start my PC, I get a error message saying 0 bytes left in your /root directory. I used the du command and found out that /var/log/syslog and /var/log/...
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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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Rsyslog.conf delete, doesn't reinstall
I have Ubuntu 18.04. I am trying to set up rsyslog service as my default logging server. I messed up configuration and didn't save a copy of the default file before modifying it. I know, stupid. I ...
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Where should I store server build logs?
When I build an Ubuntu cloud VPS (typically DigitalOcean), I have a manual build guide that I have written and maintain. As part of the build guide, I leave myself notes on the server in text files so ...
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ubuntu server user session logging
I have an ubuntu server, which acts as a gateway to access my other internal servers over ssh.
So normally, user ssh to this ubuntu server first(to a normal account) and once inside this, they ssh to ...
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Keep error/crash notifications, but stop Ubuntu from “calling home”? [duplicate]
Is there a way (in Ubuntu 16.x, 18.x) to disable all error reporting?
I want to keep being notified but disable any and all „calling home“.
I do not want to disable being personally notified, just ...
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Bind logging not working
I am running Ubuntu 18.04.2 and BIND 9.11.3
I am trying to enable logging by adding the following to /etc/bind/named.conf.local
logging {
channel bind.log {
file "/var/log/bind/bind.log" ...
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insserv: Starting glassfish depends on grafana-server and therefore on system facility `$all' which can not be true!
I have installed ELK Stack 6.7.1 in a VPS and the agent filebeat in another vps which has running glassfish 4.1 and grafana running but running filebeat to dump the glassfish logs:
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I want to store multiple logs at /var/logs, into different folders by the name of the log files
For example, create folder syslog and store all syslog*.gz into that folder and so on..
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How to disable a particular log message from being saved to var/log?
I'm making a second attempt at resolving this issue
Every time I'd shut the PC off, this error would print what looked like millions of times per second, so I'm almost positive this is the culprit ...
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Rewriting logs received via syslog from another machine
I have Machine A, which is a pfsense installation, that sends logs via syslog to a Ubuntu box. The Ubuntu Box will have to rewrite the logs, to replace for instance host names and change format a bit. ...
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Is there any logging of the basic access to the PC with Ubuntu?
Is there any logging of the basic access to the PC with Ubuntu. Also that PC is not auto-locked in some time, only the screen is dimming. For example, someone comes nearby, touches the mouse, and the ...
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Understanding UFW log
What does this UFW log mean? Has already asked a similar question, but I want to know explicitly what each line of the UFW log means
Feb 6 16:27:08 jonasgroenbek kernel: [71910.873115]
[UFW BLOCK] ...
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Best way to find out why Ubuntu 18.04 crashed. Where to find appropriate logs?
I just found out that my Ubuntu 18.04 machine crashed 20 hrs ago and switched off.
How can I find out why? Is there an event logger?
Thank you for your help!
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