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    • A
      aniodon
      last edited by

      Hello everyone,

      I struggle with the logs…

      The "Clear Logs" options do not remove anything.
      The logs i Download from my pfsense seems to be broken (they all are max log size, and are not "fully readable" it seems i only have a piece written and the rest is "NUL" in notepad++)

      In the syslog i have a " syslogd: exiting on signal 15" entry

      If i remove manually the logs in the terminal, they come back full size

      I searched around and found this issue : https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/4393  , but this was two year ago. I am on the 2.3.4-release.

      Please find attached some screenshots of my logs

      Thank you all for your help

      PS: After a reboot i still have the issue

      Logs1.JPG
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      Logs2.JPG
      Logs2.JPG_thumb

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      • GertjanG
        Gertjan
        last edited by

        @aniodon:

        Please find attached some screenshots of my logs

        Help.
        We struggle with this 12kBit image (to small to read - 256 x 62 pixels).

        No "help me" PM's please. Use the forum, the community will thank you.
        Edit : and where are the logs ??

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          aniodon
          last edited by

          Thanks !

          There is not much to see, a DHCPD.log file , One line, NUL chars…
          i made a bigger screenshot attached
          Thanks !

          Logs3.JPG
          Logs3.JPG_thumb

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            aniodon
            last edited by

            The first screenshots (Filter.log) :

            Logs1.JPG
            Logs1.JPG_thumb

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            • B
              biggsy
              last edited by

              Read this

              Send your logs to a syslog server.  Don't download them.

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                aniodon
                last edited by

                thanks for this info biggsy !

                So is the " syslogd: exiting on signal 15" entry normal ?

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                  biggsy
                  last edited by

                  From what I can see in my logs, the "syslogd: exiting on signal 15" is usually associated with a reboot/restart but there may be other circumstances.  For example, the old postfix package used to cause a syslogd restart whenever the package config was reloaded.

                  It's not something I've really worried about though.

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