[SOLVED] PFSense stopped logging
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I've had the same problem. Going to try and piz0t's "kick it in the pants" test
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Didn't seem to help mine.
/var/logs seems to have stopped for most of the logs (the only logs that show up in the UI are the filter logs, and those appear "normal" here.
Note that all of those 500k files that last updated on 2/4 (when I cleared logs) are all binary files, no user readable text.
[2.2-RELEASE][root@pfatom.home.plein.org]/var/log: ls -lahrt total 9606 -rw------- 1 root wheel 40K May 12 2014 installer.log drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512B May 12 2014 ntp -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 28B Oct 20 08:58 lastlog drwxr-xr-x 28 root wheel 512B Jan 23 23:46 .. drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 1.0K Jan 24 17:43 . -rw------- 1 root wheel 5.1K Jan 24 18:02 pflog -rw------- 1 root wheel 10K Jan 24 18:02 spamd.log -rw------- 1 root wheel 500K Feb 4 23:56 wireless.log -rw------- 1 root wheel 500K Feb 4 23:56 vpn.log -rw------- 1 root wheel 500K Feb 4 23:56 system.log -rw------- 1 root wheel 500K Feb 4 23:56 routing.log -rw------- 1 root wheel 500K Feb 4 23:56 resolver.log -rw------- 1 root wheel 500K Feb 4 23:56 relayd.log -rw------- 1 root wheel 500K Feb 4 23:56 pptps.log -rw------- 1 root wheel 500K Feb 4 23:56 ppp.log -rw------- 1 root wheel 500K Feb 4 23:56 portalauth.log -rw------- 1 root wheel 500K Feb 4 23:56 poes.log -rw------- 1 root wheel 500K Feb 4 23:56 openvpn.log -rw------- 1 root wheel 500K Feb 4 23:56 ntpd.log -rw------- 1 root wheel 500K Feb 4 23:56 lighttpd.log -rw------- 1 root wheel 500K Feb 4 23:56 l2tps.log -rw------- 1 root wheel 500K Feb 4 23:56 ipsec.log -rw------- 1 root wheel 500K Feb 4 23:56 gateways.log -rw------- 1 root wheel 500K Feb 4 23:56 dhcpd.log -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 7.1K Feb 5 21:14 dmesg.boot -rw------- 1 root wheel 23K Feb 5 21:14 userlog -rw------- 1 root wheel 1.1K Feb 5 22:36 utx.log -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 394B Feb 5 22:36 utx.lastlogin -rw------- 1 root wheel 500K Feb 5 22:38 filter.log -
Note that all of those 500k files that last updated on 2/4 (when I cleared logs) are all binary files, no user readable text.
That is NOT a bug. https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Why_can%27t_I_view_view_log_files_with_cat/grep/etc%3F_(clog)
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@piz0t:
I just noticed the same problem on 2.2 release and came to the forums to get help.
My last log was on Jan 31, 5 days ago. I now went to the log settings page and turned off "Show log entries in reverse order (newest entries on top)", saved, and then turned it back on, and now the logging is working again. It looks like the logging service must have died for some reason on Jan 31 and never restarted itself or warned me about the problem.
I run my logs in reverse, might be worth switching this back to the default reverse order to see if theres any change.
Note that all of those 500k files that last updated on 2/4 (when I cleared logs) are all binary files, no user readable text.
That is NOT a bug. https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Why_can%27t_I_view_view_log_files_with_cat/grep/etc%3F_(clog)
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Theres nothing on that page, has the text been pulled?
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The page is just fine, the forum sucks…
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OK, I understand that you can't just cat the files now.
But the files are still empty. THAT's a bug.
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Hi @ll
Well for my case I found out what has happened… my trainee has moved the logs from the PFSense box instead
of copying :oMoved the files back meanwhile but the logs don't refresh, is there any way to repair this ?
KInd regards
thafener
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Forget about it and reset the logs.
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Thank you cool, works again :)
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Update:
It's been about a week and my logs are still working. Cycling the "Show log entries in reverse order (newest entries on top)" setting got my logs working again. To be extra sure though, an hour after that, I also clicked the "Reset Log Files" button. I don't know if that made any difference, but at least my logs are still working.