logging

Consider the following scenario: I placed httpd logs on a very slow device, yet the rest of the system is quite fast. And I start serving lots of pages, very fast, where the log partition just can't keep up, i.e. serving a page completes in way less time than writing a single log entry. What...

Logfile rotation, which is handled by newsyslog, can be done based on 1) max size of file, 2) at certain time. My questions is: how does it work when both the conditions are specified? I'd expect it'll rotate when any one condition is met. Is that correct? But for example, in my newsyslog.conf...

I had a virtual machine with limited RAM(4GB RAM+4GB swap partition,and 90M swap used). When I connect to it,some service might suffer tremendous lag for initial response(about 7-8sec). But once I got initial response,the following activity seems just fine. So I suspect that some process had...

I am trying to write a highly customized script in Python2.7 in order to persist some specific logging data. I have been using syslog-ng for a long time to that end, but I believe (and hope) that a simple Python script will handle things faster and will save me the hassle of installing and...

Good day! I have a FreeBSD 11.1 + Rsyslog + MySQL installation. And I need a web interface for log view. But almost all manuals suggests loganalyser for this. But it doesn't exist in ports. Maybe deleted some time ago? So what software I can use for centralize log view through web interface?

Hey, would anyone be able to tell me how I could use syslog to log stuff I do in my management scripts? Like I'd like to start writing scripts to automate some of the system's maintenance, but one of the things that's stopping me, I think, is that I don't really have an easy way to log what's...

Hello all, I wrote a script to direct all output to a log file, but I'd like to echo certain things during the process of the script to screen output if I can. I haven't been able to find anything related to this searching online, and the man page for sh is cryptic for me (as of now). Sample of...

Hi guys, I'm looking for a way to record events when an user tries to access or execute a command/file that he doesn't have permissions to. So far, it seems like auditd is the way to go but I just can't get the configuration right. I've tried using ex,pc and na classes but...

I'm on FreeBSD11. I changed syslog config file to log sftp actions in a file, but it doesn't work. /etc/ssh/sshd_config Subsystem sftp /usr/libexec/sftp-server -f LOCAL5 -l INFO /etc/syslog.conf local5.info /var/log/sftp/sftp.log Then I...

How can I prevent core dumps of user programs from going to kernel log messages? At the moment if I am programming and happen to make the common error of segmentation fault, it ends up getting emailed to root like this: kernel log messages: +pid 75441 (ds2-test), uid 1001: exited on signal 11...

Hallo everybody. I'm having problems to use a third software (the installation is completely correct). To continue developing that software, first of all, I'd like to see the logs of OpenJDK. By default, they are not configured; I've tried to find a way to configure them, but I didn't find...

Hi, Can someone help to know how to log the action create new user by adduser command to /var/log/auth.log file? Thank for your help!

Hey everyone, I faced an issue with dhcpd logging. Configured logging: gw# less /usr/local/etc/dhcpd.conf | grep log log-facility local7; gw# less /etc/rc.conf | grep dhcpd dhcpd_enable="YES" dhcpd_ifaces="em3" gw# cat /etc/syslog.conf | grep dhcpd !dhcpd *.*...

I'm trying to set up a pf firewall. I'd like to log all the dropped packets. Here's my pf.conf so far: tcp_internet_out="{53, 80, 443, 123}" udp_internet_out="{53}" block log all pass in quick on lo0 pass out quick on lo0 pass in quick on re0 inet proto tcp from any to (re0) port 22 pass out...