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Questions tagged [syslog]

Syslog is a protocol designed to relay system event messages. Questions related to syslog involve event notification and logging capabilities.

Syslog is a standard for computer data logging. It separates the software that generates messages from the system that stores them and the software that reports and analyzes them.

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I cannot clear syslog but I can remove it?

Why doesnt sudo /dev/null > /var/log/syslog and sudo > /var/log/syslog work, while sudo rm /var/log/syslog works?!
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^@^@ character in syslog

I observe the following strange characters ^@ in syslog at the time when my machine freezes. Then i have to hardboot my machine. What could be wrong any ideas? Oct 12 12:20:52 nanak-P570WM anacron[1074]: Normal exit (1 job…
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Warnings in syslog

Syslog displays these warnings and I would like to know how I can find out what they mean in order to search for what can I do about them. $ cat /var/log/syslog| grep -i 'warn' Nov 27 13:48:19 pc NetworkManager[781]: bluez error getting…
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Huge syslog file crashing system

Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS in a minute can produce over 200GB syslog file which fills system partition and in a result it is not possible to start the system. It happened second time in few weeks. Tail result: tail syslog Dec 18 23:43:05 apollo…
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limitation of capacity of syslog file

I would like to decrease the storage usage of syslog because the free space of the root partition is small. Storage usage of syslog are shown below. -rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 42G Aug 31 14:56 syslog -rw-r----- 1 syslog …
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Ubuntu 18.04.3 /var/log/syslog Error message lircd flooding

I checked /var/log/syslog on Ubuntu 18.04.3 and discovered that it is flooded with a repetition of errors, but primarily the main one is shown below. Written every second. lircd[1298]: lircd-0.10.0[1298]: Error: Cannot glob…
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What is syslog and how can I tackle problems by using it?

Browsing through many Linux forums, I found that many Ubuntu geeks solve issue using syslog. They analyze it, and post the answer. What is this syslog, and how can it help me solve problems with my system?
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Process '/bin/chmod 0666 ' failed with exit code 1

My syslog is filled with this message, and when it triggers it adds about 100 lines a second. Any way I can try to figure out what is causing it? Extraction of what it looks like Dec 17 17:33:28 glocknet systemd-udevd[11158]: Process '/bin/chmod…
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Syslog-ng Won't Listen

Trying to setup Syslog-NG but can't get it to listen at all. I added the following to the config: source s_net { tcp(ip(0.0.0.0) port(514)); udp(ip(0.0.0.0) port(514)); }; I then restarted the service :/etc/syslog-ng$…
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Help me understand this syslog entry

fresh install of Ubuntu 16.04. My syslog is filling up daily, over 60GB per day. Looking at the last few entries, I see these being written several times per second: Jul 18 12:39:23 JALServer gnome-session[1361]: 18/07/2016 12:39:23 PM …
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What is this in my /var/sys/syslog

Oct 1 13:17:01 tilaprimera /USR/SBIN/CRON[5710]: (root) CMD ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly)
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how can I redirect input from syslog

I installed ganglia and gmond spam the syslog in a way which makes it unreadable (hundreds messages per second) I wanted to redirect these messages to own log file by adding this to rsyslog config: :rawmsg,contains,"gmond" /var/log/gmond.log this…
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Do wsl Linux Distributions have syslog?

I was playing around with my wsl and tried to locate the syslog. searched in the /var/log directory but i don't see a syslog. any help please?
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Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS> system shuts down error: syslog question

Computer is shutting down frequently, found this in syslog: Oct 15 17:27:43 d01 systemd[2527]: Requested transaction contradicts existing jobs: Transaction for graphical-session.target/stop is destructive (update-notifier-crash.service has 'start'…
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How to understand the log entries in /var/log/syslog or /var/log/messages?

I got this log file entries which I think are from either /var/log/syslog or /var/log/messages file for analysis. I'm trying to find what each column means. I searched around and found very few references as to what each log column means. Its like…
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