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    • M
      MarkVLK
      last edited by

      @KOM:

      Please start a new thread for your problem and I'll be happy to take a look.  This thread is for a particular Sarge issue.

      Sorry, didn't mean to hijack this thread! I posted a new thread here:
      https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=79140.0

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        PokerMunkee
        last edited by

        I'm a newb at this.  Forgive me.

        Is there a pretty way of exporting logs?  If a manager asks for an Internet usage report for certain computer with a date range, how would I do this?

        I take it I create a custom Schedule.  I want the report to show the Date/Time and website.

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        • KOMK
          KOM
          last edited by

          You should probably start a new thread instead of hijacking this one that's already 27 pages long.

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            peruvichito2014
            last edited by

            Hi Gurus
            After some investigation I obtaind some type of report

            By command line I changed some value and obtain these parameter in the sarg.conf file:

            [2.1.3-RELEASE][admin@pfSense.localdomain]/usr/pbi/sarg-amd64/etc/sarg(28): cat sarg.conf | sed -e '/^#/d' -e '/^$/d'
            access_log /var/squid/logs/access.log
            graphs yes
            output_dir /usr/local/sarg-reports
            anonymous_output_files yes
            resolve_ip yes
            user_ip no
            topuser_sort_field BYTES normal
            user_sort_field BYTES normal
            exclude_users /usr/pbi/sarg-amd64/etc/sarg/exclude_users.conf
            exclude_hosts /usr/pbi/sarg-amd64/etc/sarg/exclude_hosts.conf
            date_format e
            lastlog 0
            remove_temp_files yes
            index yes
            index_tree file
            overwrite_report yes
            use_comma yes
            exclude_codes /usr/pbi/sarg-amd64/etc/sarg/exclude_codes
            max_elapsed 0
            report_type sites_users users_sites
            usertab none
            long_url yes
            date_time_by bytes
            charset Latin3
            privacy no
            bytes_in_sites_users_report no
            topuser_num 0
            dansguardian_conf
            show_sarg_info no
            show_sarg_logo no
            displayed_values bytes
            authfail_report_limit 0
            denied_report_limit 0
            siteusers_report_limit 0
            user_report_limit 0
            www_document_root /usr/local/www
            ntlm_user_format domainname+username
            realtime_refresh_time 0
            realtime_types GET,PUT,CONNECT
            realtime_unauthenticated_records show
            sorttable /sarg_sorttable.js
            hostalias /usr/pbi/sarg-amd64/etc/sarg/hostalias
            [2.1.3-RELEASE][admin@pfSense.localdomain]/usr/pbi/sarg-amd64/etc/sarg(29):

            And after run this executable command:

            [2.1.3-RELEASE][admin@pfSense.localdomain]/usr/pbi/sarg-amd64/etc/sarg(30): sarg -x

            Appear a succesfull response:

            ….....
            ...........
            ..............
            SARG: Sorting log /tmp/sarg/141.user_unsort
            SARG: Making index.html
            SARG: Successful report generated on /usr/local/sarg-reports/06Aug2014-20Aug2014
            SARG: Purging temporary file sarg-general
            SARG: End
            [2.1.3-RELEASE][admin@pfSense.localdomain]/usr/pbi/sarg-amd64/etc/sarg(31):

            See the picture below

            But this report appear another problem

            Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 262144000 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 103903809 bytes) in /usr/local/www/sarg_frame.php on line 77

            This line means in this file means:

            [2.1.3-RELEASE][admin@pfSense.localdomain]/usr/local/www(43): sed '77q;d' sarg_frame.php
                    print preg_replace($pattern,$replace,$report);
            [2.1.3-RELEASE][admin@pfSense.localdomain]/usr/local/www(44):

            The question is how to resolv this event???

            I hope your suggestion / Recomendation

            Regard

            Reportes.jpg
            Reportes.jpg_thumb

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              MarkVLK
              last edited by

              My Sarg doesn't seem to be generating reports anymore since I updated to pfSense 2.1.5, is this expected or do I need to change something? I already changed the conf so that it was pointing to what I think is the correct access.log (or something like that, I forget if that was the exact file name now) and that seems to have fixed an error I was seeing in my system logs, but no reports are being generated anymore, I just see this in the system logs when it is meant to create a report

              php: sarg.php: Sarg: force refresh now with args, compress() and none action after sarg finish.

              Any ideas what might be wrong?

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                sujyo1
                last edited by

                my sarg problem start after update to 2.1.5.

                sarg view report showing:

                Error: Could not find report index file.
                Check and save sarg settings and try to force sarg schedule.

                sys log showing:

                Sep 16 00:00:01 php: sarg.php: Sarg: force refresh now with -d date +%d/%m/%Y-date +%d/%m/%Y args, compress(on) and none action after sarg finish.
                Sep 16 00:00:01 php: sarg.php: Sarg: force refresh now with -d date +%d/%m/%Y-date +%d/%m/%Y args, compress(on) and none action after sarg finish.

                [2.1.5-RELEASE][admin@xxxxxx.localdomain]/root(1): sarg
                SARG: Records in file: 50, reading: 100.00%
                SARG: No records found
                SARG: End

                [2.1.5-RELEASE][admin@xxxxxx.localdomain]/root(5): pkg_info
                bsdinstaller-2.0.2014.0410 BSD Installer mega-package
                gettext-0.18.3.1    GNU gettext package
                libiconv-1.14_1    A character set conversion library

                [2.1.5-RELEASE][admin@xxxxx.localdomain]/root(6): sarg -x
                SARG: Init
                SARG: Loading configuration from /usr/pbi/sarg-i386/etc/sarg/sarg.conf
                SARG: Loading exclude host file from: /usr/pbi/sarg-i386/etc/sarg/exclude_hosts.conf
                SARG: Loading exclude file from: /usr/pbi/sarg-i386/etc/sarg/exclude_users.conf
                SARG: Reading host alias file "/usr/pbi/sarg-i386/etc/sarg/hostalias"
                SARG: List of host names to alias:
                SARG: Deleting temporary directory "/tmp/sarg"
                SARG: Parameters:
                SARG:          Hostname or IP address (-a) =
                SARG:                    Useragent log (-b) =
                SARG:                    Exclude file (-c) = /usr/pbi/sarg-i386/etc/sarg/exclude_hosts.conf
                SARG:                  Date from-until (-d) =
                SARG:    Email address to send reports (-e) =
                SARG:                      Config file (-f) = /usr/pbi/sarg-i386/etc/sarg/sarg.conf
                SARG:                      Date format (-g) = USA (mm/dd/yyyy)
                SARG:                        IP report (-i) = No
                SARG:            Keep temporary files (-k) = No
                SARG:                        Input log (-l) = /var/squid/logs/access.log
                SARG:              Resolve IP Address (-n) = No
                SARG:                      Output dir (-o) = /usr/local/sarg-reports/
                SARG: Use Ip Address instead of userid (-p) = No
                SARG:                    Accessed site (-s) =
                SARG:                            Time (-t) =
                SARG:                            User (-u) =
                SARG:                    Temporary dir (-w) = /tmp/sarg
                SARG:                  Debug messages (-x) = Yes
                SARG:                Process messages (-z) = No
                SARG:  Previous reports to keep (–lastlog) = 0
                SARG:
                SARG: sarg version: 2.3.6 Arp-21-2013
                SARG: Reading access log file: /var/squid/logs/access.log
                SARG: Records in file: 50, reading: 100.00%
                SARG:    Records read: 50, written: 0, excluded: 0
                SARG: Squid log format
                SARG: No records found
                SARG: End

                cat /usr/pbi/sarg-i386/etc/sarg/sarg.conf | more

                sarg.conf

                TAG:  access_log file

                #      Where is the access.log
                #      sarg -l file

                access_log /var/squid/logs/access.log

                TAG: graphs yes|no

                #      Use graphics where is possible.
                #          graph_days_bytes_bar_color blue|green|yellow|orange|brown|red

                graphs yes
                #graph_days_bytes_bar_color orange

                TAG:  graph_font

                #      The full path to the TTF font file to use to create the graphs. It is required
                #      if graphs is set to yes.

                #graph_font /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu/DejaVuSans.ttf

                TAG:  title

                --More--(byte 529)# sarg.conf

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                  ck42
                  last edited by

                  Looks like Sarg is not working again.
                  Updated to 2.2 the other day.  Sarg is the latest version available in packages (2.3.9 pkg v.0.6.4) and running squid (2.7.9 pkg v.4.3.6)

                  Attempting to run the Reports gives 'Could not find report index file.' message.
                  Trying to run Sarg from the CLI gives me 'Cannot set the locale LC_ALL to the environment variable'

                  Anyone have Sarg working with pf 2.2?

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                  • KOMK
                    KOM
                    last edited by

                    Doing a quick search for Sarg and picking a result a little more current would have led you to this thread here with a solution.

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                      ck42
                      last edited by

                      Funny that you refer to that thread, KOM.  I had actually read through that prior to posting.
                      I had already tried creating the symlink on my system with no luck.  That's why I wanted to know if anyone actually has this working with 2.2…hoping that they would confirm whether or not any special steps needed to be taken to make it work.

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                      • marcellocM
                        marcelloc
                        last edited by

                        I have. I did only the symlink.

                        Try to run sarg on console to see what erros do you get.

                        If you install cron package, you can see how I call configured report schedule.

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                        • KOMK
                          KOM
                          last edited by

                          Cannot set the locale LC_ALL to the environment variable

                          I saw this on Solaris about 10 years ago.  I forget what the fix was.  Haven't seen it on 2.2 x64, and I've installed it many, many times.  As Mercello said, run sarg or sarg -x from the console and see what it says.

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                          • marcellocM
                            marcelloc
                            last edited by

                            @KOM:

                            Cannot set the locale LC_ALL to the environment variable

                            This is already applied to the package since pfSense 2.1 . Run an export before the sarg cmd.

                             export LC_ALL=C && sarg...

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                              ck42
                              last edited by 

                              $  export LC_ALL=C && sarg
SARG: Records in file: 0, reading: 0.00%
SARG: No records found
SARG: End
SARG: Records in file: 0, reading: 100.00%

                              $ sarg -x
SARG: Cannot set the locale LC_ALL to the environment variable
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                              • marcellocM
                                marcelloc
                                last edited by

                                looks like you have no logs on squid file

                                sarg -x also need the export LC_ALL=C &&

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                                  ck42
                                  last edited by

                                  @marcelloc:

                                  looks like you have no logs on squid file

                                  sarg -x also need the export LC_ALL=C &&

                                  Not entirely following you by this suggestion.  But I think you are wanting the output of this from?
                                  sarg -x export LC_ALL=C &&

                                  If so, the output just shows the same command entered (this is from the GUI).  No error messages or anything else.

                                  In looking at the log files in /var/squid/log, I noticed that all of the access.log files are EMPTY (0 byte files).  The cache logs look normal though.  Also, all the dates on the log files in that dir are current from the last few days.
                                  I'm not sure how to proceed next though to troubleshoot this.  Seems to me that this may be the issue (or at least part of it).  Why are the access log files not accumulating data?

                                  [EDIT] Might be on to something.  I forced an update in a schedule and then noticed that the .0 access log is accumulating. The View Report tab also now no longer gives me the error about the index file. 
                                  So what I've done for a test is to disable the log rotation in the report settings.  Log rotation is already set for 30 days in the Squid setup.

                                  Still seeing " Cannot set the locale LC_ALL to the environment variable" when I try to run sarg -x though.

                                  Something else that might be helpful from my system.

                                  # LC_ALL=C sarg -x
SARG: Init
SARG: Loading configuration from /usr/local/etc/sarg/sarg.conf
SARG: Chaining IP resolving module "dns"
SARG: Loading exclude host file from: /usr/pbi/sarg-i386/etc/sarg/exclude_hosts.conf
SARG: Loading exclude file from: /usr/pbi/sarg-i386/etc/sarg/exclude_users.conf
SARG: Reading host alias file "/usr/pbi/sarg-i386/etc/sarg/hostalias"
SARG: List of host names to alias:
SARG: Parameters:
SARG:           Hostname or IP address (-a) =
SARG:                    Useragent log (-b) =
SARG:                     Exclude file (-c) = /usr/pbi/sarg-i386/etc/sarg/exclude_hosts.conf
SARG:                  Date from-until (-d) =
SARG:    Email address to send reports (-e) =
SARG:                      Config file (-f) = /usr/local/etc/sarg/sarg.conf
SARG:                      Date format (-g) = Sites & Users (yyyy/ww)
SARG:                        IP report (-i) = No
SARG:             Keep temporary files (-k) = No
SARG:                        Input log (-l) = /var/squid/logs/access.log
SARG:               Resolve IP Address (-n) = Yes
SARG:                       Output dir (-o) = /usr/local/sarg-reports/
SARG: Use Ip Address instead of userid (-p) = Yes
SARG:                    Accessed site (-s) =
SARG:                             Time (-t) =
SARG:                             User (-u) =
SARG:                    Temporary dir (-w) = /tmp/sarg
SARG:                   Debug messages (-x) = Yes
SARG:                 Process messages (-z) = No
SARG:  Previous reports to keep (--lastlog) = 0
SARG:
SARG: sarg version: 2.3.9 Sep-21-2014
SARG: Loading User table: /usr/pbi/sarg-i386/etc/sarg/usertab.conf
SARG: Reading access log file: /var/squid/logs/access.log
SARG: Records in file: 174, reading: 100.00%
SARG:    Records read: 174, written: 174, excluded: 0
SARG: Squid log format
SARG: Period: 2015.05
SARG: Sorting log /tmp/sarg/0.user_unsort
SARG: Sorting log /tmp/sarg/1.user_unsort
SARG: Sorting log /tmp/sarg/2.user_unsort
SARG: (repday) Cannot open log file /usr/local/sarg-reports/2015.05/0/d0.html

                                  Regarding that very last line of output, here's what in the 2015.05 directory:

                                  # ls -la /usr/local/sarg-reports/2015.05
total 18
drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel   512 Feb  4 11:54 .
drwxr-xr-x  5 root  wheel   512 Feb  4 11:54 ..
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  4437 Feb  4 11:54 index.html
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    22 Feb  4 11:54 sarg-date
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  1398 Feb  4 11:54 sarg-general
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel     2 Feb  4 11:54 sarg-users
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   116 Feb  4 11:54 top

                                  So it's correct in that there's no "0" directory in which to find the d0.html file it's looking for.
                                  A system wide search for this file DOES show that a copy exist here though.
                                  /usr/pbi/sarg-i386/local/sarg-reports/2015.01.1/0/d0.html

                                  And lastly, the Realtime logging appears to be working correctly.

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                                  • marcellocM
                                    marcelloc
                                    last edited by

                                    @ck42:

                                    Not entirely following you by this suggestion.  But I think you are wanting the output of this from?
                                    sarg -x export LC_ALL=C &&

                                    export LC_ALL=C && sarg -x

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                                      ck42
                                      last edited by

                                      @marcelloc:

                                      @ck42:

                                      Not entirely following you by this suggestion.  But I think you are wanting the output of this from?
                                      sarg -x export LC_ALL=C &&

                                      export LC_ALL=C && sarg -x

                                      Here we go:

                                      $ export LC_ALL=C && sarg -x
SARG: Init
SARG: Loading configuration from /usr/local/etc/sarg/sarg.conf
SARG: Chaining IP resolving module "dns"
SARG: Loading exclude host file from: /usr/pbi/sarg-i386/etc/sarg/exclude_hosts.conf
SARG: Loading exclude file from: /usr/pbi/sarg-i386/etc/sarg/exclude_users.conf
SARG: Reading host alias file "/usr/pbi/sarg-i386/etc/sarg/hostalias"
SARG: List of host names to alias:
SARG: Deleting temporary directory "/tmp/sarg"
SARG: Parameters:
SARG:           Hostname or IP address (-a) = 
SARG:                    Useragent log (-b) = 
SARG:                     Exclude file (-c) = /usr/pbi/sarg-i386/etc/sarg/exclude_hosts.conf
SARG:                  Date from-until (-d) = 
SARG:    Email address to send reports (-e) = 
SARG:                      Config file (-f) = /usr/local/etc/sarg/sarg.conf
SARG:                      Date format (-g) = USA (mm/dd/yyyy)
SARG:                        IP report (-i) = No
SARG:             Keep temporary files (-k) = No
SARG:                        Input log (-l) = /var/squid/logs/access.log
SARG:               Resolve IP Address (-n) = Yes
SARG:                       Output dir (-o) = /usr/local/sarg-reports/
SARG: Use Ip Address instead of userid (-p) = Yes
SARG:                    Accessed site (-s) = 
SARG:                             Time (-t) = 
SARG:                             User (-u) = 
SARG:                    Temporary dir (-w) = /tmp/sarg
SARG:                   Debug messages (-x) = Yes
SARG:                 Process messages (-z) = No
SARG:  Previous reports to keep (--lastlog) = 0
SARG: 
SARG: sarg version: 2.3.9 Sep-21-2014
SARG: Loading User table: /usr/pbi/sarg-i386/etc/sarg/usertab.conf
SARG: Reading access log file: /var/squid/logs/access.log
SARG: Records in file: 1042, reading: 0.00%
SARG:    Records read: 1042, written: 1042, excluded: 0
SARG: Squid log format
SARG: Period: 2015 Feb 04
SARG: File /usr/local/sarg-reports/2015Feb04-2015Feb04 already exists, moved to /usr/local/sarg-reports/2015Feb04-2015Feb04.2
SARG: Sorting log /tmp/sarg/0.user_unsort
SARG: Making file: /tmp/sarg/0
SARG: Sorting log /tmp/sarg/1.user_unsort
SARG: Making file: /tmp/sarg/1
SARG: Sorting log /tmp/sarg/2.user_unsort
SARG: Making file: /tmp/sarg/2
SARG: Sorting log /tmp/sarg/3.user_unsort
SARG: Making file: /tmp/sarg/3
SARG: Sorting log /tmp/sarg/4.user_unsort
SARG: Making file: /tmp/sarg/4
SARG: Sorting log /tmp/sarg/5.user_unsort
SARG: Making file: /tmp/sarg/5
SARG: Sorting log /tmp/sarg/6.user_unsort
SARG: Making file: /tmp/sarg/6
SARG: (repday) Cannot open log file /usr/local/sarg-reports/2015Feb04-2015Feb04/5/d5.html
SARG: Records in file: 1042, reading: 100.00%
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                                      • KOMK
                                        KOM
                                        last edited by

                                        OK, making progress.  Sarg seems to be one of the more fragile packages.  If you happen to select the wrong report options or report to generate, it won't work.  Here is what I use and it seems to work OK:

                                        sarg.png
                                        sarg.png_thumb

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                                          ck42
                                          last edited by

                                          KOM: That's pretty odd that something like the chosen report selection is causing this…but that was issue!  :o
                                          Is this a bug or is this something that is out of Sarg's control?

                                          BTW: Thank you both, KOM and marcelloc!!

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                                          • KOMK
                                            KOM
                                            last edited by

                                            Is this a bug or is this something that is out of Sarg's control?

                                            Probably a bug in the pfSense Sarg package.  Sarg is currently at 2.3.9 while the pfSense package is 2.3.6 so it's 1.5 years older, and as far as I know it's always acted funky like that.  Pick the wrong report and the whole thing falls over.

                                            Glad to hear you got it working.

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