Increase kernel logs in 2.6.0

abs0new

Hi friends.

I need to do a very simple task on my pfsense box 2.6.0.
Sorry if it looks stupid but i'm a little stuck here.

I got issue with a NIC and i want to increase kernel log to have more details for the vendor.

As i told in the freebsd manual here :

https://people.freebsd.org/~rodrigc/doc/handbook/configtuning-syslog.html

i edited :

/etc/syslog.d/kernel.conf

with :

# $FreeBSD$
kern.info       /var/log/kernel.log

and rebooted :

i don't have anything written in the file.

It seems clog i the new "log ~~rotation~~ keep size" since >2.5.0 :

I read the log's doc :

I can't find how to setup things correctly.
Can someone give me a hint on this please?

Thank you in advance friends.

PS: i can't install a remote log server for the moment

stephenw10

Did you try booting in verbose mode instead?

What is the NIC? What details are you looking for?

Steve

abs0new

Thank you @stephenw10 .

I got a NIC wich i need to up after the multiuser boot .

I didn't try to boot in verbose ; should i go to the menu and type something like this :

boot -v

as i see in this doc :

https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/boot/#boot-introduction

I wanted to see if some kernel logs can tell me something is wrong or need a kernel mod tweak .

The NIC is HP 560 SFP+ with this chipset.

ix2@pci0:4:0:0: class=0x020000 card=0x17d3103c chip=0x10fb8086 rev=0x01 hdr=0x00                                                                                                              
    vendor     = 'Intel Corporation'                                                                                                                                                          
    device     = '82599ES 10-Gigabit SFI/SFP+ Network Connection'                                                                                                                             
    class      = network                                                                                                                                                                      
    subclass   = ethernet

I already got some logs from kernel in syslog but i wanted it more verbose.

stephenw10

I have that exact NIC. It works fine.
What are you trying to make it do? What's it not doing?

Steve

abs0new

@stephenw10 Hi sorry for the delay

The interface doesn't up at boot i need to do

ifconfig ix3 up

I managed to boot with boot -v
but couldn't see any nasty logs.

I can give you more details tomorrow ( don't have the sever on hand right now) .

stephenw10

Hmm, pfSense will do that to the interface when it configures it at boot as long as it's assigned and enabled. How are you using it?

abs0new

@stephenw10 Very sorry for the long delay. I was in long vacation and got a huge pile of work at return.

Fortunately the card has been well configured and now works like a charm.

I use it as trunk for all the vlan on my L.A.N .

Nevertheless i feel sorry for any reader of this thread for not providing solution to kernel log increasing. :(

stephenw10

The logging used by pfSense can be seen here: /var/etc/syslog.d/pfSense.conf
As it says there though that file is auto-generated and should not be edited directly.

However if you look there you will see that kern.debug is already being written to the system log so I would expect that to include anything at the lower priority level 'info'.

Steve