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    SYSLOG gone crazy since 2.0.3 upgrade.

    Scheduled Pinned Locked Moved Problems Installing or Upgrading pfSense Software
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      PistolPete
      last edited by

      Log file is at 134MB and I still have time left for today.

      I'm going to have to roll back to an earlier version if this carries on

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        PistolPete
        last edited by

        This has gotten completely out of hand now - each line is being sent 18 times!!!

        My log file for today is 260MB

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        • jimpJ
          jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
          last edited by

          The filter output is the same on ALL 2.0.x installs. That is not new for 2.0.3. It would not be the source of this issue.

          The only confirmed issue we've seen with syslog on 2.0.3 was this: http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,61186.15.html (fix is in the thread on the second page)

          Please post the contents of /var/etc/syslog.conf

          And the output from:

          ps uxawww | grep syslogd
          

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            PistolPete
            last edited by

            Hi,

            I rolled back the change I made to stop the lines splitting and they are still massive files ~150Mb

            Here is the /var/etc/syslog.conf (I sanitised the IP)

            !ntp,ntpd,ntpdate
            . %/var/log/ntpd.log
            !ppp
            . %/var/log/ppp.log
            !pptps
            . %/var/log/pptps.log
            !poes
            . %/var/log/poes.log
            !l2tps
            . %/var/log/l2tps.log
            !racoon
            . %/var/log/ipsec.log
            !openvpn
            . %/var/log/openvpn.log
            !apinger
            . %/var/log/apinger.log
            !relayd
            . %/var/log/relayd.log
            !hostapd
            . %/var/log/wireless.log
            !-ntpd,racoon,openvpn,pptps,poes,l2tps,relayd,hostapd
            local0.* %/var/log/filter.log
            local3.* %/var/log/vpn.log
            local4.* %/var/log/portalauth.log
            local7.* %/var/log/dhcpd.log
            .notice;kern.debug;lpr.info;mail.crit; %/var/log/system.log
            news.err;local0.none;local3.none;local4.none; %/var/log/system.log
            local7.none %/var/log/system.log
            security.
            %/var/log/system.log
            auth.info;authpriv.info;daemon.info %/var/log/system.log
            auth.info;authpriv.info |exec /usr/local/sbin/sshlockout_pf 15
            .emerg *
            !

            . @nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn

            ps uxawww | grep syslogd

            root 10501  0.0  0.1 14848  2852  ??  Ss  29Apr13  15:53.97 /usr/sbin/syslogd -s -c -c -l /var/dhcpd/var/run/log -f /var/etc/syslog.conf
            root 36241  0.0  0.0  9040  1460  0  S+    2:52PM  0:00.00 grep syslogd

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              PistolPete
              last edited by

              Does this mean anything to anyone??  I have to do something to fix this pretty fast - my log hit 774Mb yesterday and I'm running short of disk space fast!

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                PistolPete
                last edited by

                I've got no choice but to pull Pfsense from the firewall now.
                Last 5 days logs files have been over 1GB each, 140x the average of the log files prior to the upgrade and I dont see this resolving itself.

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                  PistolPete
                  last edited by

                  OK, as a last ditch attempt to get this sorted (the Syslog volume ran out of space so I had to do something) I set the development snapshots and upgraded and so far so good!

                  Syslog appears to be only sending 1 line per log line now and the files are growing at approximately the correct rate.

                  I'll continue to monitor.

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                    PistolPete
                    last edited by

                    1 month on and it's back to 10 duplicated lines and 1GB log files…..  not happy.

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                      pvoigt
                      last edited by

                      @PistolPete:

                      1 month on and it's back to 10 duplicated lines and 1GB log files…..  not happy.

                      Well, not sure, if you've read the thread jimp has proposed. Exactly this answer in the thread has solved the syslog problem for me.

                      Please let me know, if your problems still exist after you've applied the proposed changes to /etc/nsswitch.conf.

                      Peter

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                        PistolPete
                        last edited by

                        Not sure how that issue is related to mine.  I got the NSSwitch problem immediately after upgrading, but it disappeared just as quick.
                        My issue was the Pfsense kept sending multiple copies of the same line

                        Also, I upgraded to the latest Beta as of 25th June and it's solved the problem and I'm back to 8MB log files again, so whatever the problem was has been fixed…...either that or maybe the old fix for repairing the broken Syslog where is breaks lines in two no longer works correctly as i've not applied it.

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                          pvoigt
                          last edited by

                          @PistolPete:

                          Not sure how that issue is related to mine.  I got the NSSwitch problem immediately after upgrading, but it disappeared just as quick.
                          My issue was the Pfsense kept sending multiple copies of the same line

                          Also, I upgraded to the latest Beta as of 25th June and it's solved the problem and I'm back to 8MB log files again, so whatever the problem was has been fixed…...either that or maybe the old fix for repairing the broken Syslog where is breaks lines in two no longer works correctly as i've not applied it.

                          I've probably not got what the "multiple copies of the same lines" really mean in your syslog as this is particularly true for the "NSSWTICH" entries. Maybe your initial description has been a bit to abstract at least to me - a few lines from your syslog could have clarified it :).

                          Nevertheless, it seems unclear why your syslog problems have gone with 2.1 beta. If you're still interested in getting it solved, you'll probably have to send some representive parts of your multiple syslog entries.

                          Peter

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