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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A Simple way to force an "Out of Memory" condition?
I'm working on getting alerts set up. Can anyone suggest a simple way to force an out of memory condition say on a vanilla ubuntu?
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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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Random Freezing with ubuntu 14.04
Installed ubuntu 14.04 and the system freezes at least once a day at what seems to be random times.
By Freezing I mean the mouse keyboard and screen won't react at all.
This will happen no matter if ...
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syslog-ng viewer that can display many log files of different IDS
I have three Intrusion detection systems installed (snort, modsecurity,ossec) and I want to visualize the generated log files of these IDS.
Is there a Graphical User Interface that can display the ...
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"file /var/log/syslog is being edited" message in nano
To the best of my knowledge, I can view /var/log/syslog with the command
sudo nano /var/log/syslog
and successfully did so several times during a session; however, I was trying to search the log for ...
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remote syslog-ng
I have two Ubuntu's in VMware Workstation, one of them is Ubuntu 14 (client) and the other one is Ubuntu 15 mate (server) and they are pinged together.
I've installed syslog-ng on both sides and I ...
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why dmesg output to log file is not working?
I am trying to output the dmesg to a log file so I can look at it through my txt editor, but i keep getting an error msg:
dmesg > /Desktop/log.txt
gives me this error:
bash: /Desktop/dmesg.log: No ...
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every month ssh stuck (and not only ssh)
I know almost nothing about this server. It was setup before I joined my company and I never used until now.
My colleague told me that every month the ssh stop working. The server is still up because ...
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fresh install reporting no space (disappearing space!)
I have done a fresh install of Ubuntu 14.04 and 15.10 x64 on a 256GB drive using the whole disk. This is a NVMe and I initially suspected it. After a few days of use the system reports less than 1GB ...
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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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Why doesn't my Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS server consistently boot? Help with logs
I am running a fairly simple in-office server for the purposes of hosting GitLab and MatterMost (alternative to Slack chat). The problem I am having is that 9 times out of 10, if I need to reboot the ...
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How can I get spammy ssh "Starting Session" messages out of my syslog view?
When I was running 14.04, I could use my Mac to run ssh [email protected] 'tail /var/log/syslog' and see the tail of syslog. I had GeekTool on the Mac setup to run this command frequently and display ...
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"VCE not responding, trying to reset the ECPU" presented at boot
When booting, I see the errors below. I have an HP laptop with an AMD CPU. I can link the model number if that would be useful. Given that it mentions Radeon, I'm assuming this has something to do ...
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What is this in my /var/sys/syslog
Oct 1 13:17:01 tilaprimera /USR/SBIN/CRON[5710]: (root) CMD ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly)
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limitation of capacity of syslog file
I would like to decrease the storage usage of syslog because the free space of the root partition is small.
Storage usage of syslog are shown below.
-rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 42G Aug ...
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Syslog still receiving entries after filter to sepaqrate file
I am trying to get remote devices to into separate log files and not in the main syslog file.
I have created a filter for remote devices to go to a separate file per host, but still remote devices ...
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syslog and kern.log multiple GB in size filled with pcieport error messages
After getting a disk usage warning, I noticed my syslog and kern.log were multiple GBs in size (20GB each). I then used this askubuntu post to clear the log files but today I find that they have again ...
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"CRITICAL: We failed, but the fail whale is dead. Sorry..."
When I started up my machine today I got some quite bizarre messages in my syslog:
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Aug 17 18:58:15 Floral-Towel systemd[1349]: Startup finished in 266ms.
Aug 17 18:58:15 Floral-Towel systemd[1349]...
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No logs get logged into syslog file after i removed all lines from it
I deleted all lines from my /var/log/syslog as this file had grown to a large file.
But after this activity now no logs get logged into it.
I think i deleted some lines responsible for logs settings, ...
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Noise messages in the syslog from thermald
I am running Ubuntu 15.04. I am noticing a lot of noise messages in the syslog from thermald.
thermald[9139]: Set : 94000, 25000, 0, 0, 0
thermald[9139]: Set : 94000, 26000, 0, 0, 0
thermald[9139]: ...
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syslog doesn't exist!
I use 14.04 and I don't have syslog.
I'm a fresh user of Linux, being Windows user for years.
When I try tail syslog and that's what out:
henrique@henrique:/var/log$ tail -f /var/log/syslog
tail: ...
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How to stop Tracker indexing file contents?
I recently got an alert from my HIDS (Host Intrusion Detection System) about this.
I then checked syslog for the entries around that time, here is an extract.
After reading the some more on this, I ...
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syslog-ng activation fail
I installed syslog-ng on Ubuntu. I did this:
~$sudo service syslog-ng start
then I got in file /var/log/syslog the line:
syslog-ng[1150]: EOF control channel, closing connection;
I tried some ...
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Is it safe to stop thermald on my desktop PC?
I have thermald running on my desktop PC, which is an older Xeon with 4 cores.
thermald pollutes the /var/log/syslog file on my 15.04. (See this related question, How to quiet Ubuntu 15.04 noisy ...
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Debugging 14.04 freeze with syslog
Since upgrading to 14.04 a few weeks back, I have been experiencing a problem wherein Ubuntu will freeze (i.e. the entire UI stops working, can't drop down runlevels, etc.), and the only solution is ...
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How to quiet Ubuntu 15.04 noisy syslog
On Ubuntu 15.04 (Vivid Vervet) /var/log/syslog is extremely noisy. There are messages every few seconds, from systemd, thermald, gnome-session. Most messages appear to be non-essential, simply status ...
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"Wrong ufstype may corrupt your filesystem" - Should I be worried?
I was just now looking through /var/log/syslog and I found these line which worried me:
ufs: You didn't specify the type of your ufs filesystem
May 5 09:06:09 Bath-Towel kernel: [ 425.626221]
May ...
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How to view '/var/log/syslog' contents without crash
For various reasons it is necessary for me to check the log of my computer in /var/log/syslog, but this has become a bit of a problem because I am not actually able to view the logs in that file ...
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No logs are written to /var/log
I have a problem, that no logs are written to /var/log.
-rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 6.4M May 21 2014 syslog
-rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 5.7M May 21 2014 daemon.log
-rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 494K May 21 ...
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OSSEC HIDS reports "Interface entered in promiscuous(sniffing) mode"
I have installed the latest version of OSSEC HIDS (2.8.1), and I keep now getting these email notifications from it:
OSSEC HIDS Notification.
2015 Apr 08 11:26:17
Received From: Bath-Towel->/var/...
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Identifying syslog files, also does auth.log mirror what is in /vars/syslog?
I am writing a auth log parser as a means to contribute to a tool and to learn linux logging better. I have been reading up on syslog and log facilities and was wondering if what is in auth.log will ...
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Why doesn't chkrootkit test syslogd?
When I scan my machine with chkrootkit I notice that it always says for one of them:
Checking `syslogd'... not tested
Why is this not tested for? Should this be ...
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Dell 7537 syslog over 40 GB
I am a new user and not a techie, but i love ubuntu. I am at 14.10 currently and have almost 60GB allocated to /var but lately the /var folder has been eating up almost over 40GB of space, the last ...
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Prevent Rsyslog from removing automatically syslog.gz files. [duplicate]
Why ubuntu remove older syslog older than syslog.7.gz by default? How can I prevent that to happen?
Thanks
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vsftpd cant log in with syslog_enable=YES
Hi guys I want to send my ftp logs to a syslog server, so I tried to enable syslog. But when I set syslog_enable to YES I cant use my FTP Server at all. I am getting this error message:
500 OOPS: ...
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Wrong timestamp in syslog
I was taking a look on my syslog, and I found this:
Nov 30 22:30:01 nori-hidamari NetworkManager[963]: <info> (wlan0): canceled DHCP transaction, DHCP client pid 2580
Nov 30 22:30:01 nori-...
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Ubuntu crash - how to read log files
A few days ago the laptop decided to close without no relevant reason. From this day on, it randomly crashes without explanation.
This is what I (correctly?) filtered from the log files on the last ...
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Regulatory domain changed to country CA (I'm BR)
I'm learning some things about the logs to know if everything in the computer is running normally.
But, in these days, my syslog have been filled with messages like:
Oct 31 16:56:41 nori-hidamari ...
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Write to syslog from the command line
How can I write an entry into /var/log/syslog from the command line?
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Create alarm on log system
I want to set an "alarm" on my Ubuntu machine that reports weird stuff happening in my logs. Let's say I want it to save information when a certain event occurs, for example somebody attempted to log ...
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Worrying messages in syslog
I recently installed Ubuntu 14.04. Today, I found some scary looking messages in syslog. I wanted to know if they are a cause for worry.
ACPI: Deprecated procfs I/F for battery is loaded, please ...
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"libsyslog-ng-3.4.8.so: cannot open shared object file" while starting syslog
I tried to install syslog-ng from source on a new Ubuntu 14.04 install. In anticipation of questioning why I did this, its because there are some changes I want to make to logging systems for ...
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how fix the issue that so that ubi-usersetup crash doesn't happen when I try to install ubuntu
Whenever I try to install ubuntu 14.04 lts I get a message saying:
ubi-usersetupcrash
ubi-usersetup failed with exit code 10. Further information may be
found in var/log/syslog
What do I do ...
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Where are the log files for psql connection attempts?
I want to troubleshoot a failed attempt to connect to a remote Pg server using psql.
I'd expected to find some log files for psql, but I didn't.
Is there any other place where such information would ...
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syslog error message eating up my HD with wireless message
I received a message that I ran out of space on my hard drive, so I deleted a few things, large games I never played, etc, a few hours later, I got the same message, so I deleted a few more large ...
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syslog time is not matching cron string setup
I am running many cronjobs in my server. When I was checking the syslog file to see the cron timing, it's completely not matching. Can someone help me to understand.
syslog
May 23 00:00:01 xxxxxx ...
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Error starting up dns forward zone file
I am working setting up my DNS, but i am getting errors in: tail -f /var/sys/log.
I have setted up a static ip-adress in networks: 192.168.10.1
May 11 18:13:54 s180368 named[3582]: command channel ...
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WiFi issue: /var/log/syslog and kern.log are too huge after I installed Ubuntu 14.04
Freshly installed Ubuntu 14.04 last week and my WiFi was not working. I tried to get WiFi up in vain then I started using LAN as a workaround for my work.
And today I noticed syslog* was more than ...
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14.04 upgrade: sysklogd disappeared without replacement!
I just upgraded from 13.10 to 14.04 with do-release-upgrade and I lost my syslog daemon in the proceedings. klogd and sysklogd were removed without any replacement functionality being installed. (I ...
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Hard drive moving folders mysteriously
I had a pretty scary moment today, when a folder I was editing a LaTeX report in simply disappeared!
Here's the system log:
pedro@X230t:~$ cat /var/log/syslog | grep sda1
Apr 13 13:59:59 X230t ...