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    Firewall Logs

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      marvosa
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      Can someone tell me where the firewall logs are kept?

      Status: System logs: Firewall will only go back 2000 lines… I need to go back several days.

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        jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
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        http://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Why_can%27t_I_view_view_log_files_with_cat/grep/etc%3F_%28clog%29

        Log files are a fixed size. If you need more log entries, you have to send them to an external syslog server.

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