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      firewalluser
      last edited by

      This is the output and still nothing has been logged since 11:33 the other day.

      $ ps uxawww | grep syslog
      root    28670  0.0  0.0  14540  2248  -  S    27Dec14    0:20.85 /usr/local/sbin/radvd -p /var/run/radvd.pid -C /var/etc/radvd.conf -m syslog
      root    51623  0.0  0.0  17144  2640  -  S    9:54PM    0:00.00 sh -c ps uxawww | grep syslog 2>&1
      root    51929  0.0  0.0  18884  2384  -  S    9:54PM    0:00.00 grep syslog

      Pressing Save on the Settings tab of the logs or on System > General will restart syslogd, though it's probably a symptom of some larger problem on your firewall that needs to be figured out.

      I did increase the log size from 750 to a figure above 2000 around that time to get some info out for another post, got this
      _"The following input errors were detected:

      Number of log entries to show must be between 5 and 2000."_

      so reduced it to 2000 and clicked save.

      I guess it doesnt like 2000 as I have just tried 2000 again and clicked save, no logging, I changed it 1000 starts logging, tried 1500 and it doesnt log, tried 1001 and it doesnt log, so I guess pf is accepting 1000 as a value but the php/html is allowing upto 2000.

      If its not reproducible, my settings are
      Forward/Reverse Display ticked
      1000
      blank
      4x log packets….. all ticked
      log errors ticked
      raw logs unticked
      filter description - dont load desc
      local logging unticked
      default (any)
      ipv4
      everything else blank and/or not filled in.

      edit.
      "so I guess pf is accepting 1000 as a value"
      should read
      "so I guess pf is accepting upto 1000 as a value"

      5 and below including negative numbers works as expected.

      Capitalism, currently The World's best Entertainment Control System and YOU cant buy it! But you can buy this, or some of this or some of these

      Asch Conformity, mainly the blind leading the blind.

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        cmb
        last edited by

        The "GUI log entries to display" field you're changing only impacts how many logs are shown on each logging tab, it doesn't actually affect syslogd except that it restarts it. Seems like that's failing on your system in some circumstances for some reason. If you leave that number alone and hit save, it'll do the same thing from syslogd's perspective.

        When it stops logging, is the last thing you see in the system log something like "syslogd: exiting on signal 15"?  When you hit Save on the Settings tab there, the logs you should get are:

        Jan  7 19:24:38 alix syslogd: exiting on signal 15
Jan  7 19:24:38 alix syslogd: kernel boot file is /boot/kernel/kernel

        where it exits in the first line, then is restarted in the second. I'm guessing when it doesn't work you get the exit, and not the restart. Hard to tell why syslog isn't starting since it isn't going to log if it isn't up and running, but you might get something clear if you try to launch it manually after it being stopped. Run the following:

        /usr/sbin/syslogd -s -c -c -l /var/dhcpd/var/run/log -P /var/run/syslog.pid -f /var/etc/syslog.conf

        and what output do you get from that?

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          firewalluser
          last edited by

          Jan 8 11:16:04 syslogd: kernel boot file is /boot/kernel/kernel *******
          Jan 7 23:18:53 syslogd: exiting on signal 15
          Jan 7 23:18:53 check_reload_status: Syncing firewall
          Jan 7 23:15:20 syslogd: kernel boot file is /boot/kernel/kernel
          Jan 7 23:15:05 syslogd: exiting on signal 15
          Jan 7 23:15:05 check_reload_status: Syncing firewall
          Jan 7 22:40:00 php: snort_check_cron_misc.inc: [Snort] Alert pcap file cleanup job removed 1 pcap file(s) from /var/log/snort/snort_em061353/…
          Jan 7 22:19:44 syslogd: kernel boot file is /boot/kernel/kernel
          Jan 7 22:13:40 syslogd: exiting on signal 15
          Jan 7 22:13:40 check_reload_status: Syncing firewall
          Jan 7 22:05:45 syslogd: kernel boot file is /boot/kernel/kernel
          Jan 7 22:02:15 syslogd: exiting on signal 15
          Jan 7 22:02:15 check_reload_status: Syncing firewall
          Jan 7 22:01:57 kernel: 6 13:37:56 php-fpm[84641]: /rc.dyndns.update: DynDns: updatedns() starting
          Jan 7 22:01:57 syslogd: kernel boot file is /boot/kernel/kernel
          Jan 6 11:33:12 syslogd: exiting on signal 15
          Jan 6 11:33:12 check_reload_status: Syncing firewall
          Jan 6 11:19:49 check_reload_status: Syncing firewall
          Jan 6 10:39:46 php-fpm[88580]: /index.php: Successful login for user 'admin' from: 192.168.10.20

          The Jan7 entries from 22:01 are the logs from when I was changing the log number in the log settings, although its currently on 1000 and I can see the logging has stopped.

          *** is when I run your command
          /usr/sbin/syslogd -s -c -c -l /var/dhcpd/var/run/log -P /var/run/syslog.pid -f /var/etc/syslog.conf

          I'm going to update from the 24th Dec build that I'm currently on and see if that makes any difference.

          Edit.

          Upgraded to
          2.2-RC (amd64)
          built on Thu Jan 08 03:14:18 CST 2015
          FreeBSD 10.1-RELEASE-p3

          and can see in the log which still has GUI Log Entries to Display = 1000
          Jan 8 13:10:58 syslogd: exiting on signal 15
          Jan 8 13:10:58 php: rc.bootup: Finished reinstalling all packages.
          Jan 8 13:10:58 php: rc.bootup: Finished installing package snort
          Jan 8 13:10:58 php: rc.bootup: Successfully installed package: snort.

          If I run
          /usr/sbin/syslogd -s -c -c -l /var/dhcpd/var/run/log -P /var/run/syslog.pid -f /var/etc/syslog.conf

          and check the logs, this is what I see.
          Jan 8 13:23:53 syslogd: kernel boot file is /boot/kernel/kernel
          Jan 8 13:10:58 syslogd: exiting on signal 15
          Jan 8 13:10:58 php: rc.bootup: Finished reinstalling all packages.
          Jan 8 13:10:58 php: rc.bootup: Finished installing package snort
          Jan 8 13:10:58 php: rc.bootup: Successfully installed package: snort.

          Capitalism, currently The World's best Entertainment Control System and YOU cant buy it! But you can buy this, or some of this or some of these

          Asch Conformity, mainly the blind leading the blind.

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            firewalluser
            last edited by

            Just an observation on the forum software.

            I edited the post above after upgrading the fw, which meant getting assigned a new ip address, but I didnt get asked to log back in again to the forum when I edited the above post.

            Does the forum software use the cookies to decide who can stay logged in or some other method to determine that I'm who-I-say-I-am even though I've come from a different ip address?

            Capitalism, currently The World's best Entertainment Control System and YOU cant buy it! But you can buy this, or some of this or some of these

            Asch Conformity, mainly the blind leading the blind.

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              cmb
              last edited by

              so apparently there is no reason it can't start syslogd. I was hoping you'd get some kind of useful output out of it as to why it didn't start again. What are you running on there outside of defaults?

              @firewalluser:

              Does the forum software use the cookies to decide who can stay logged in or some other method to determine that I'm who-I-say-I-am even though I've come from a different ip address?

              The session cookies in SMF aren't tied to an IP. That's generally more trouble than it's worth (CGN, multi-WAN load balancing, mobile systems, etc. will normally change IPs).

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                firewalluser
                last edited by

                Snort (2.9.7.0 pkg v3.2.1) is the only package installed and running at the moment although only using Snort Community & Emerging Threats for now.

                DynaDNS (Custom) for a couple domain names with various sub domains like www.domain.com & mail.domain.com, total entries 9.

                2 port forwards (25 & 465) with corresponding rules to an old 2005 AMD windows 7 laptop running a mail server & freeswitch with some apps I've written to plug gaps where stuff doesnt work in Freeswitch.

                Wan is variable ip home adsl, using an old router configured as a modem, pfsense doing the ppoe.

                Running on an Intel NUC 847 which is a Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 847 @ 1.10GHz 2 CPUs: 1 package(s) x 2 core(s), got 8Gb ram & a 128Gb mSata drive, and a http://plugable.com/products/usb2-e100 acting as the wan interface for a dual nic setup, so fairly quick and not really stressed hardware.

                Is there any additional/debug logging I can switch on at this end or is whats shown in the log the most amount of data I can get out it?

                Capitalism, currently The World's best Entertainment Control System and YOU cant buy it! But you can buy this, or some of this or some of these

                Asch Conformity, mainly the blind leading the blind.

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                  cmb
                  last edited by

                  Problem is you have no logging under that circumstance. Try resetting your log files on the settings tab there, does that stop the issue?

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                    firewalluser
                    last edited by

                    I'll see how that goes, however as its possible other users might change the number of entries in the log and then click save, could something be added to advise resseting the logs after changing the number of entries so others avoid a similar situation?

                    Capitalism, currently The World's best Entertainment Control System and YOU cant buy it! But you can buy this, or some of this or some of these

                    Asch Conformity, mainly the blind leading the blind.

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                      cmb
                      last edited by

                      Changing "GUI Log Entries to Display" has no impact on syslogd at all. That suggestion wasn't based on having changed that field.

                      Did you also change "Log File Size (Bytes)" at some point?

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                        firewalluser
                        last edited by

                        Yes, I had changed Log File Size (Bytes) in the past, but currently its not set becuase a couple of upgrades had not gone smoothly so I'd reinstalled from a memstick install and not changed the log file size from its default of being blank since then.

                        Capitalism, currently The World's best Entertainment Control System and YOU cant buy it! But you can buy this, or some of this or some of these

                        Asch Conformity, mainly the blind leading the blind.

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                          firewalluser
                          last edited by

                          2.2-RC (amd64)
                          built on Sat Jan 10 03:54:06 CST 2015
                          FreeBSD 10.1-RELEASE-p3

                          $ ps uxawww | grep syslog
                          root    31633  0.0  0.0  14540  2248  -  S    Sat09PM    0:09.31 /usr/local/sbin/radvd -p /var/run/radvd.pid -C /var/etc/radvd.conf -m syslog
                          root    60483  0.0  0.0  17144  2652  -  S    8:36AM    0:00.00 sh -c ps uxawww | grep syslog 2>&1
                          root    60932  0.0  0.0  18884  2384  -  S    8:36AM    0:00.00 grep syslog
                          root    96576  0.0  0.0  14664  2432  -  Ss  Sun12PM    2:20.21 /usr/sbin/syslogd -s -c -c -l /var/dhcpd/var/run/log -P /var/run/syslog.pid -f /var/etc/syslog.conf

                          Out of a possible 2000 firewall log entries, I've only got 765 which span from Jan 15 08:02:28 through to Jan 15 05:38:02, which would suggest the fw packet logging has stopped as its not logged any entries for the packets going to the the mail server thats had email in every hour through out the night.

                          Whether this is linked to my other post https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=86087.msg476118#msg476118
                          I dont know at this stage.

                          Capitalism, currently The World's best Entertainment Control System and YOU cant buy it! But you can buy this, or some of this or some of these

                          Asch Conformity, mainly the blind leading the blind.

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                            cmb
                            last edited by

                            This is the root cause of the problem here, with a fix that can be installed using the system patches package.
                            https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/4393

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