Lighttpd log analysis

[islandwifibill]

From the CL in /var/log I get:

tail -f lighttpd.log
CLOG��^C

So the lighttpd.log file is binary?  I see no other log files for lighttpd (other than of course, lighttpd.error.log).  BSD chat rooms suggest that I am living on Mars or somewhere in Alfa Centauri for suggesting that the log files are not standard ascii, and that command should work with no problems.

Okeedoke.  Any suggestions here?

[wallabybob]

pfSense logs are circular logs. That is they are fixed size (cannot grow indefinitely) and contain only the most recent entries. You need to use the clog utility to convert them to standard text, for example:```
clog /var/log/system.log

pfSense uses FreeBSD but it is not FreeBSD.