Logging broken ?

aniodon

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

Gertjan

@aniodon:

Please find attached some screenshots of my logs

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

aniodon

Thanks !

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

aniodon

The first screenshots (Filter.log) :

biggsy

Read this

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

aniodon

thanks for this info biggsy !

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

biggsy

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.