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    • ? Offline
      A Former User
      last edited by

      @jimp:

      Try this one:

      http://files.pfsense.org/jimp/patches/pf-log-oneline-option-2.1.1.diff

      Can apply that patch now, but it doesn't work. Logs are still split on 2 lines.

      Diagnostics>Command Prompt:

      
      $ /etc/rc.d/syslogd restart
      Stopping syslogd.
      Starting syslogd.
      
      

      log sample (sanitized)

      
      2014-04-10T14:38:53+03:00 somehost pf: 00:00:31.932924 rule 3/0(match): block in on em1: (tos 0x0, ttl 54, id 48381, offset 0, flags [DF], proto TCP (6), length 60)
      2014-04-10T14:38:53+03:00 somehost pf:     xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx.53883 > yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy.80: Flags [s], cksum 0x158f (correct), seq 1628583023, win 14600, options [mss 1460,sackOK,TS val 2583988370 ecr 0,nop,wscale 7], length 0
      [/s]
      
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      • jimpJ Offline
        jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
        last edited by

        Did you enable the option in the system log settings after applying the patch? It doesn't default to on.

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        • ? Offline
          A Former User
          last edited by

          @jimp:

          Did you enable the option in the system log settings after applying the patch? It doesn't default to on.

          Knew I would brainfart at some point today. Forgot about that setting, will try when I get back and report back.

          Tested after upgrading to 2.1.2 and working as expected after enabling it in the settings. Thank you

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          • M Offline
            miloman
            last edited by

            @jimp:

            Try this one:

            http://files.pfsense.org/jimp/patches/pf-log-oneline-option-2.1.1.diff

            any love for pfsense 2.1.2 and 2.1.3?

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            • B Offline
              biggsy
              last edited by

              That patch works for me on 2.1.3.

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              • BBcan177B Offline
                BBcan177 Moderator
                last edited by

                I have had some issues with this patch also. Worked on most machines but one of them I had to remove the patch, reboot and then re-enable the patch to get it to work?

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                  ozzbrian
                  last edited by

                  Does this work for 2.5

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                    valshare
                    last edited by

                    don´t work with pfsense 2.2

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                    • jimpJ Offline
                      jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
                      last edited by

                      The patch is not needed on 2.2.

                      2.2 changed the native log format to be one line already: https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Filter_Log_Format_for_pfSense_2.2

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                        fearnothing
                        last edited by

                        Hi folks, I'm looking into teach myself how to write a syslog-ng parser for pfsense 2.2 output. There are a few fields where I want to query exactly what content might be in them because the documentation page isn't quite specific enough. If someone's already written a parser - great! I'll look at it after I've taught myself to do it first, and maybe learn if I've made any mistakes. But the learning comes first  :D

                        Specifically, I need to know what I might encounter in the following fields:

                        • IP Flags - will it simply be "DNF" or "MF" or could it be more complicated?
                        • ECN - is it going to give the numeric value or a text representation?
                        • URG - will it say "set" or "true" or "urg" or something else?
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                          fearnothing
                          last edited by

                          Further to the above, I'm making good progress with the basic version of pfsense 2.2 firewall syslog events - just about have all IPv4 TCP/UDP working and will start on ICMP and IPv6 after that. One thing I don't have the facility to do at home is CARP, so I would very much appreciate it if people could post me some example CARP event messages for me to make sure my patterns are matching correctly.

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