Questions tagged [rsyslog]
Questions regarding rsyslog, a multi-threaded system and kernel logging daemon.
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Kern.log and Syslog Growing Uncontrollably (with details)
Similar to other questions about uncontrollable bloat in kern.log and syslog, but in my case I can’t figure out what in the kernel is causing it because I don’t recognize the process and my google ...
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rsyslog stopped creating pid file after upgrade from 18.04 to 20.04
After upgrading from 18.04 LTS to 20.04 LTS rsyslog stopped writing its PID into /(var/)run/rsyslogd.pid file.
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How do I modify /etc/syslog.conf to send all syslog messages to a file in different location?
I want all the syslog messages to be saved on the disk in the file location say /home/root/journal/messages. What configuration do I need in syslog.conf to achieve this?
I'm currently using busybox ...
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Moving log location for Tomcat 9 on Ubuntu 18.04
On a fresh instance in AWS of Ubuntu 18.04, I have installed tomcat9 through apt. I'm replacing a 14.04 Ubuntu install where i was running tomcat7. Due to the nature of my application, I have a very ...
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How to configure Rsyslog with MikroTik to create separate DB each day?
I am a newbie to Rsyslog. My OS is Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS.
I want the Rsyslog DB to create a log each day, so that it can be managed easily. I have already achieved that with syslog-ng. In syslog-ng it ...
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rsyslog errors flooding log
Ubuntu 18.04LTS server, My log is suddenly flooded with rsyslog errors:
Jan 5 19:17:01 servername rsyslogd: action 'action 13' resumed (module 'builtin:omfile') [v8.32.0 try http://www.rsyslog.com/e/...
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rsyslog suspending while creating directories and files
I'm using Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS (Bionic Beaver) for details click here.
rsyslog version used rsyslogd 8.2001.0.aeabf0e9703b for details click here.
/etc/rsyslog.conf file click here.
I copied the ...
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Configure rsyslog to send logs from a specific program to a remote syslog server?
I set up a rule for rsyslog, in short it sends a log to a remote host, but logs are not sent.
vi /etc/rsyslog.d/waf.conf
Here are the contents
module(load="imfile" PollingInterval="5")
$...
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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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Logrotate not doing his job, hdd full because of logs
I have a small microSD ( 3GB ) on a ARM Samsung Artik, with Ubuntu installed.
I have installed syslog-ng and Logrotate to manage my logs, because otherwise my memory get filled quickly.
My problem ...
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get custom log from user log in rsyslog
I don't want "networkmanager" and "gnome" log in this log file. how to apply filter on it?
/etc/rsyslog.d/50-default.conf
user.* -/var/log/user.log
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Should I reboot after set new timezone using timedatectl
I am on a 1604 system with timezone A, after I set the timezone to B using timedatectl set-timezone B, everything work fine.('timedatectl status' is B, 'date' command showing the right time, file time ...
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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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Unable to restart rsyslog service using “sudo systemctl restart rsyslogd”
I am not able to restart rsyslog service using systemctl:
sudo systemctl restart rsyslogd.
I keep getting the time out error message.
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How we can monitor the network traffic of logs transferred through the rsyslog
I'm consolidating the client logs to a centralized server in Ubuntu using the rsyslog deamon. While consolidating the logs, how can i see the amount of network traffic or file size transferred from ...
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How to set size for system log
My server dumps because of huge system log files. I've heard that we could limit the size of system log by adding such a line size 100m into the file /etc/logrotate.d/rsyslog to do so.
Now my /etc/...
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GPSD logs on ubuntu (syslog)
I am debugging gpsd in ubuntu. gpsd uses syslog. However I don't know where the log is getting stored. Any clues please?
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rsyslog template date/time format with seconds
My current template configuration of rsyslog looks like this:
/etc/rsyslog.d/00-samba-audit.conf
template(name="sambalog" type="string"
string="%$year%-%$month%-%$day% %$hour%:%$minute% %HOSTNAME% %...
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Every few minutes rsyslog outputs - rsyslogd: action 'action 3' resumed (module 'builtin:omfile') [v8.32.0 try http://www.rsyslog.com/e/2359 ]
Since my update to 18.04.1 last week from 16.04.5 I've been seeing this in my syslog every few minutes:
Aug 19 19:22:02 localhost rsyslogd: action 'action 3' resumed (module 'builtin:omfile') [v8.32....
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rsyslog big data 44 terabytes of storage yearly on ubuntu 18.04
I have tried rsyslog Remote for Mikrotik user log tcp and udp
Everything was working very well
But there are some problems that I need to attend
If the size of the log is up to 120 GB daily, I need ...
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User creation remote logging
I am trying to centralize logs from different server to one server.
I can centralize logging information via adding auth.* @server_ip:port in /etc/rsyslog.conf from the clients, but now I don't ...
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Rsyslog rate-limiting ubuntu 16.04
I'm testing rsyslog 8.16 on Ubuntu 16.04, and I have this message on my suyslog file
rsyslogd[internal_messages]: 39340 messages lost due to rate-limiting
This is my configuration on /etc/resolv....
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How to stop Dovecot from logging to syslog
I'm running Ubuntu 16.04 with the packaged Dovecot for imap and Roundcube for its web interface. Everything's working dandy except I can't get Dovecot to stop logging imap logins and imap logouts to ...
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Cannot separate DHCPD logs for syslog
I'm trying to separate DHCPD log from syslog file in Ubuntu 16.4 LTS.
In my dhcpd.conf file I have added:
log-facility local7;
And in rsyslog.conf file:
#Logging for DHCP service
local7 /var/log/...
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Systemd service script not logging during shutdown
Background
NetworkManager doesn't run dispatcher.d/pre-down.d scripts, so I have created a systemd-service script. It is working well during startup and shutdown, but during shutdown it doesn't write ...
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Setup an extra, non-root syslog server as a systemd service
I want to create a systemd service, which would start an extra instance of syslog (I assume rsyslogd, as this seems to be what's installed on my Xenial?). I want it to listen on specified socket (...
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Nginx logging per site to syslog
I'm currently logging each site in nginx using its own access and error log configuration:
access_log syslog:server=localhost,tag=nginx_access_internet,severity=info;
error_log syslog:...
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how to configure rsyslog to receive log from specic IP addresses?
I want to configure rsyslog on a server so that receive logs from specific IP addresses and drop the others.is it possible?
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rsyslog: log message from remote host to specific file
I am trying to log messages from a specific remote host to a separate log file (and only to that file). I tried this:
# cat /etc/rsyslog.d/avs110door.conf
if $fromhost == 'avs110' then /var/log/...
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How can I configure logrotate without having `/etc/logrotate.d/rsyslog`?
I am trying to configure log rotation on my Ubuntu machine so that logs are rotated every day and kept for 14 days. Most tutorials I find, such as this one, mention that I should modify /etc/logrotate....
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Has `/etc/logrotate.d/rsyslog` moved?
I am trying to configure log rotation on my Ubuntu machine so that logs are rotated every day and kept for 14 days. Most tutorials I find, such as this one, mention that I should modify /etc/logrotate....
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Relationship of rsyslog and journald on Ubuntu 16.04
I am running what is a vanilla Ubuntu 16.04 server, and I'm trying to wrap my head around how logging is set up by default. I can see that both journald and rsyslog are installed and running, but it's ...
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How to change path of syslog file from /var/log to /opt/log?
I am using ubuntu 14.04. I have to change the path of syslog file from /var/log to /opt/log. I have changed the path in 50-default.conf file from /var/log to /opt/log. I have restarted the rsyslog ...
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Avoid app logging to syslog
I am trying to setup logging for an app with a new custom conf file under /etc/rsyslog.d
as below & name the file as 30-custom.conf
$template DailyPerHostLogs, "/var/log/rsyslog/<new_folder>...
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Hdd never spins down in Debian or Ubuntu
I am currently using Debian because I have an old computer. I am running xfce4 as DKE. I only want to use it as a print server, nothing else but the hdd keeps running hot to 59Celsius and its not ...
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rsyslog does not foward mail authentication records to remote server
rsyslog forwards auth.log sshd login records to a remote server but not mail authentication attempt records (dovecot:auth) or sudo command records. All mail.log records are forwarded as expected.
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Send JSON data with logger command
I am trying to use (Ubuntu) logger command to send data to Logstash. I want the data to contain JSON structured data, like:
logger -p syslog.warn "{"user":"admin", "password":"admin"}}"
I remember ...
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Sending syslog messages to storage pool instead of /var/log/
I have a centralized syslog server configured and working. It collects logs from a remote device and stores them in /var/log/<remotehostname>/<logfile>.log, as it should. The problem is, /...
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How to specific “alert” or “info” with logger command in Ubuntu 16.04?
I am using a software F, installed on PC named A (192.168.6.5) (running Windows) for receiving log (rsyslog) from a remote Ubuntu 14.04 server B (192.168.6.6). In F, I can see logs from B with types ...
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14.04.4 to 14.04.5 upgrade: rsyslog script stops working
The docker software (v1.10.2) I run on my Ubuntu 14.04.4 system is configured to save all logs to syslog. To get a specific log file for every docker container, I use the following script:
# /etc/...
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Rsyslog losing message when sending via TCP
I was trying to build a custom Syslog server on the Windows platform, which I, for a start, am implementing a basic TCP listener (server). I encountered problem and I have asked this on StackOverflow: ...
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rsyslogd wont start correctly on Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS while using the Init-Script
somehow my init-script for rsyslogd does not work. I tried to enable rsyslogd to accept logging-data on udp:514.
If I start my rsyslogd via Init-Script, no logging-data is forwarded. Not even syslog! ...
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Accidentally deleted /var/log/syslog
I accidentally deleted /var/log/syslog and now I can't get rsyslog working.
I was googling, I tried everything I found. To be precise:
I created syslog with touch.
Then I set chmod and chown ...
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Redirect iptables logging to another logfile
I have followed the recipe by @Gilles in this answer. I succeeded, but the problem is that the iptables logging now goes into 3 log files, syslog, kern.log and iptables.log.
Ideally, I want the ...
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rsyslog isolation to avoid system and app mix
I am passing my IIS app logs (log4net) files to rsyslog (/var/log/syslog) in my Ubuntu server.
I want to preserve a special place for these logs and I don't want them to be mixed with other services ...
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How to include millisecond in syslogs?
I have configured rsyslog.conf file in /etc to include my own logs as syslogs in a file at /var/logs.
But after opening the file I got this:
Jun 5 10:09:09 lab-Altos-G330-Mk2 slog[19689]: Hello1
Jun ...
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Ubuntu 14.04 server went offline all of a sudden
I see the below in syslog, not sure what went wrong, any help will be appreciated. Is this beacause of an automatic kernel update as I see a new kernel version?
May 17 10:20:36 vps rsyslogd: [origin ...
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rsyslog server saves logs from remote also in /var/syslog
I have setup my ubuntu server as syslog server to accept all my logs from my router and save them in a seperate mikrotik.log file in the /var/log/ folder.
Everything works but i notice that all ...
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how do I get the atd daemon log at commands?
On HPUX all at jobs are logged in a cron.log file. Alas I cannot find similar on Ubuntu.
I see cron is logged to syslog and I can change rsyslog to log to a cron.log. But my attempts to log at.* ...
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Postfix logs to remote server
On my Ubuntu 14.04 server, I'm using Postfix as a front-end mailserver, and I would like to send all mail related info, including email addresses, to a remote host. In the file /etc/rsyslog.d/50-...
