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System.log size

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PeterK2003
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is the sytem log limited to 500K?
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jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
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They are binary circular logs, the size is constant.

http://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Why_can%27t_I_view_view_log_files_with_cat/grep/etc%3F_%28clog%29
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PeterK2003
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is there anyway to increase the size?
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jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
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Not easily.

You can always push the logs off to another server though:
http://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Copying_Logs_to_a_Remote_Host_with_Syslog
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