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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Ubuntu server random reboots
Yesterday, I faced a sudden reboot issue in one of my servers.
The server was rebooted suddenly and it was up only after 9 mins.
The configuration and log files of the server are attached below. ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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Making a user with no login shell a member of the syslog group, how bad is it?
I have some cronjobs that are created with sudo crontab -e that runs commands like sudo -u $dynamic_user_name command_to_run. Sometimes that 'command_to_run' is the logger command. The problem is that ...
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Strange freeze happening randomly on Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS
I have a freeze problem that I couldn't find any clue as to why it happens:
I am using Ubuntu 22.04.1 and kernel version 5.15.0-56-generic.
I have NVIDIA Quadro RTX 4000 and 525.60.13 that came with &...
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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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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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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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xconsole causing rsyslog to fail startup
I am trying to verify that a cronjob ran on WSL2. Sources have told me to check /var/log/syslog. When I navigated there, syslog did not exist. Sources then told me to run service rsyslog start to ...
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syslog very large, full of "Object St.DrawingArea has been already disposed error
I found my root partition quickly (lets say daily, even hourly) full. took a look at the syslog and it was 18GB in size. took a look inside and it was full of two errors, one related to a specific ...
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kern.log consuming all my disk space(entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe)
I get a warning that I am running out of disk space. I find that it is the syslogs, especially the kern.log(s) that are eating up disk.
It seems like my system is writing message over and over ...
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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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/var/log/syslog and /var/log/syslog.1 running wild, please help! [duplicate]
I don't know what happened but a few days ago my main disk was clogged, when looking around for the culprit, I found out that /var/log directory was over 600Gb, then I discovered that it was /var/log/...
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Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS> system shuts down error: syslog question
Computer is shutting down frequently, found this in syslog:
Oct 15 17:27:43 d01 systemd[2527]: Requested transaction contradicts existing jobs: Transaction for graphical-session.target/stop is ...
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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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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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Can not open syslog
The first command works, but geany can not open syslog?
I am the owner of the copied syslog.
Why is that? The file is only 1.4 Mb.
cp /var/log/syslog /home/andy/Downloads/syslog.txt
geany /home/andy/...
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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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/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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Forwarding historic (old) syslog to syslog server
We can forward syslogs to syslog server by making the below entry in syslog.conf/rsyslog.conf
*.*<space/tab>@<syslog_server_name>:<port_no>
However, this only sends new syslogs, ...
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Ubuntu 20.04 does not boot. Syslog file is 223 giga
I have a pc running Ubuntu 20.04.I found that my syslog file size is 223 giga and tried to restart my device and now it does not start at all.
Tried advanced settings and clean option but only removed ...
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Can you paste the original Ubuntu 20.04 syslog.service file content for me?
While adding a new service to the /etc/systemd/system/ folder, I have accidentally edited the syslog.service file and lost its original content.
Can someone paste the original file content here for me?...
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View all previous IP logs/connections/etc
I'm not sure if this is a thing or not. I was wondering if for example someone got on my machine (say its on a vpn not on my home network) If someone had access to it somehow if they could view any ...
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How to get rid of pulseaudio messages in syslog?
I have a lot of messages in syslog regarding pulseaudio, but the server is in Azure Cloud.
I can't get rid of these messages.
I don't need sound on this server
pulseaudio[56093]: Failed to open cookie ...
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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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How to send text to syslog-ng server
I am try to find the simplest way to send text from Linux to syslog-ng server.
I have tried few things:
curl -d "my data heure" -X POST server:port
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cat bootlog | netcat server port port
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How to disable logging to /var/log/syslog and use only systemd logs
My last question What are the options to manage the size of /var/log/syslog of an embedded system was not answered so I am asking this question to see if it is possible to stop using /var/log/syslog ...
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What are the options to manage the size of /var/log/syslog of an embedded system
I have an embedded system (i.MX6) running a modified version of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS bionic stored on its SD card and I want to know how to manage /var/log/syslog file size.
I noticed that systemd journal ...
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ubuntu 20.04 sensors ( lm-sensor ) to syslog - Missing sensord
I found an article about sensord missing from v20.04.From a while ago called what is the new equiv of sensord.
In it there is a comment :
On Ubuntu 20.04 it is also missing. It's not in lm-sensors and ...
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Ubuntu server Freezing every night, what this syslog entry means?
My server was running nice, but since some weeks ago it started to hang up during the night even after I removed some potencial problematic apps, I imagined it could be either power delivery, some ...
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Spurious timeout before allowing me to log in or authenticate for sudo
Soemtimes when I use sudo at the command line, nothing happens for 20+ seconds. After that, the desired things happens, which is that I am told to swipe my finger on the fingerprint reader or, if that ...
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RSyslog CPU usage > 100%
We currently have RSyslog Server (On Linux Ubuntu 18.04 VM LTA with Size: Standard D4s v3 4 vcpus, 16 GiB memory) receiving logs from ZScaler Proxy & FortiGate Firewalls and ingesting them into ...
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