Questions tagged [logging]
The act of recording actions, requests, and other meaningful data in a computer. Often used for troubleshooting kernels, servers, etc.
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How to view Windows update history especially logs on uninstalled updates
I was having issues with Windows 11 restarting by itself some months ago, which started happening after a Windows update, so it was obvious the update was bad, so with trial and error I found the ...
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How to get syslog in common event format (CEF)?
I want /var/log/syslog in common event format(CEF). Is there any way to convert a syslog into CEF?
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Programs Unresponsive at about the same time Everyday
I have been dealing with this issue for a while now and it always happens in late afternoon time. I can't nail down a specific time but in the 3-5pm (today happened at 4:40) range.
I am using Windows ...
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USB mouse jiggler and logs
A lot of companies have software that detects usb mouse jigglers, heard it can get you fired. Even without downloading software, are jigglers creating USB logs and will it give employers all my ...
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Linux command logging [closed]
I am seeking guidance on how to set up logging for executed Linux commands into a designated log file with specific details. My objective is to create a mechanism, possibly a daemon or background ...
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TACACS+ accounting using linux client
Is it possible to log all commands executed in the Linux machine to a TACACS server?
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How to get “failed login attempts since the last successful login” count as a variable?
When I log in to a server I see:
Last failed login: Fri Jul 17 12:47:01 CEST 2020 from 111.222.333.444 on ssh:notty
There were 2713 failed login attempts since the last successful login.
Last login: ...
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HyperV VM was stopped - How to find why and when in Windows Server event logs
Recently I keep finding a HyperV VM (the MSSP's vulnerability scanner) that is in the "Stopped" state when it shouldn't be and want to find the cause. I'm a support officer slowly ...
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Deleted characters recorded in MobaXterm log
In MobaXterm SSH session, I type several letters randomly then delete them, but they are still recorded in log file. How can I prevent the deleted letters from being recorded in the log file?
Below is ...
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PHP-FPM on Apache log issue
I am having trouble finding the cause of my php-fpm process logging its error output to the same location as the script result.
I have an Apache server which passes requests to the php-fpm process ...
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How to rotate logs with rsyslog advanced format?
I'm using rsyslog with advanced format (also known as RainerScript). How can I make it rotate log files using this syntax? My (simplified) config looks like this:
module(load="imudp")
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MobaXTerm: opening a new SSH session from Win CMD with logging
first topic here, so apologies in advance, if I am doing something wrong!
Searching with various terms did not yield in useful results, so I would like to ask for your help.
Is it possible to start a ...
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Which is the best solution for shared database meeting these requirements? [closed]
Which solution would you recommend which has:
a relational database with a user interface
access for 20-50 users potentially working in parallel
user authentication
log of changes
customizable forms, ...
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Why Log4j2 logger only prints to console and not write to a file?
Apache Log4j2 logger prints to console not to file when run on the server-side. The same logger, if placed on the client-side, logs to file as expected. This worked fine on version 1.7.10 but when ...
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How can I fix this error in the DISM log file?
I want to repair a corrupted Windows installed on a hard disk through another PC.The wim file that I use as a source for repair was extracted from another wim file that contains several versions of ...
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How to stop Kafka DEBUG logs when Kafka lib is used as Keycloak module
A keycloak module (including a kafka producer) is deployed to "keycloak-4.8.1.Final" server.
My Problem:
Even I used INFO log level, DEBUG messages are logging from Kafka library. So I want to stop ...
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Logging files that are unable to transfer in powershell
I'm trying to log some files that are unable to transfer when I'm recursively copying over one folder to a different location. When I right click, copy, and paste the folder, I get an error message &...
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Windows 7 Event Log for Desktop Background Change
We had an issue with our company where someone changed the desktop background on a shared machine to something inappropriate. We're trying to find out if Windows performs logging of when the desktop ...
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MobaXterm - Why is my LOG filename shows "localhost" instead of my hostname when establishing an SSH session?
I'm quite new with MobaXterm. For each SSH session that I open to a given host, I want to log the terminal output to an individual file whose filename includes the given hostname + timestamp. I have ...
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How to clear content of a lot of text files fast under Windows?
I have a folder with logs.
This folder contains a lot of log files. I cannot delete these files because server keeps it. But I can remove content of every file. It is very annoying to open each file ...
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Windows 10+ CMD adding space after initial command
Noticed last week from our SIEM logs that windows command line is adding an additonal space after the initial command. Examples:
ping 1.1.1.1 turns into ping 1.1.1.1
net user bob /do turns into net ...
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No ntbtlog.txt after enabling Boot Logging
My windows 10 box needs ages for booting, so I've tried to enable boot logging to find out what is taking this time. I've enabled it by using msconfig and another time by calling
bcdedit /set {current}...
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Internet access status, windows 7 event viewer
I have a pc working 24/7 and the internet connection disconnect and reconnect several times in the day, and I would like to know log history of the internet status logged by this pc, is it possible ...
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TextAnalysisTool.NET equivalent for OS X
I've used TextAnalysisTool.NET in the past for analyzing log files on Windows machines and found it incredibly useful. I love the simplicity+power that it achieves for dynamically grepping log files, ...
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How to identify unrepaired corrupted files through the log created by dism?
If by running the command " Dism /image:C:\ /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth /Source:D:\install.wim /LimitAccess
", dism fails to repair some system files, does it create a log and mention them ...
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How do I see which files were repaired by SFC (systems file check)? The CBS.Log doesn't have any details on the name of the files
My Windows 10 crashed during gaming with 0xc000021a BSOD, I decided to ran sfc /scannow . It said that it:
had found corrupt files and successfully repaired them. Details are
included in the CBS.Log %...
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How can I disable Windows 7 MSI logging?
I ran CCleaner just now and found that it wanted to free 14 GB from my Windows temp files. I took a look and they are being stored at C:\Windows\Temp, and they are some sort of MSI log file. Google ...
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How to show private data in macOS unified log within Xcode
I am getting runtime errors in Xcode involving interface builder. However, the system logger is sanitizing pertinent information contained in the logging.
Unknown class <private> in Interface ...
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Does chromium keep logs of the events leading up to opening a new tab?
I had a tab randomly open up that was for adware. Luckily, it was caught by my ad blocker, but I would like to figure out what triggered it to open.
I tried checking its history state through console,...
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Apache Tomcat can't create log file and fails
I try to start Apache Maven at Win7 x64 SP1.
java version "1.7.0_09"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.7.0_09-b05)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 23.5-b02, mixed mode)
Apache Tomcat ...
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How to configure rsyslog to use the imfile module?
I have Red Hat 9.2 with rsyslog v8.2102.0-113.el9_2.1.
I use default /etc/rsyslog.conf and a custom configuration called vums.conf located in /etc/rsyslog.d/.
module(load="imfile")
input(...
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How to figure out why os stalled
I'm guesing it was either a disconnected ssd running the os, or the power supply unit , an uniterruptible power supply that is old. Because i was moving the ssd around within the desktop at the time, ...
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'DisplaySessionContainer1' files inside ProgramData directory of C drive
There are about 100+ files named 'DisplaySessionContainer1' and 'DisplaySessionContainer1.log_backup1' in my 'C:\ProgramData' path. I cannnot find the reason where they are coming from. Please help me ...
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Is there any way to check the "history" of burned CDs on Win 7?
I was wondering if there is any way to check what files where burned to what CD/DVD from a Windows 7 computer?
In other words, is there a log function which records what files where burned to disk?
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RealVNC Logging on Windows
I'd like to see who WAS connected using RealVNC to a specific machine, running Windows 2008 server R2 64bit.
Is it in the event viewer? Where exactly?
Is logging turned on by default?
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can Clear-Content be equivalent to bash 'truncate'?
This could be off-topic, if so my apologies; please re-direct me to the correct StackExchange site.😉
Can Clear-Content file.log be used in Powershell, on a Windows Server environment to empty a ...
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Viewing the full Skype chat history
I have Skype 2.8 on Mac OS X 10.5.8.
Under the the chat menu is an option called "Recent Chats". This allows me to see logs of recent chats, but not of older ones.
I know the older ones are ...
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Change Office 2016 setup log directory to custom location
I can't seem to figure out how to change the default Office setup.exe log location from C:\users\username\AppData\Local\Temp\SetupExe(blablabalbaba).log to somewhere else locally on the disk. This ...
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/var/log/syslog.1 => 60GB | I seem to have stopped the cause, but don't know how to cleanly deal with the size of the logfile
So basically there is a command (gotop-cjbassi) I run continuously for monitoring purposes which started to misbehave badly apparently. After verification, every time it is run, systemd-journald ...
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Connect multiple hosts running promtail to loki running on a separate host
Hi all first time posting here.
I have 3 different servers. This is the setup I want to achieve:
Server1 (51.25.365.12): promtail
Server2 (51.25.78.215): promtail
Server3 (216.25.36.54): promtail, ...
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Is it possible to filter journald messages before they are filed?
I have all kind of logs which are centralized with journald. A lot of them are not interesting and I could try to filter them at the source, but this not always possible. Moreover, some are ...
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Preserve OPNsense logs after a reboot
OPNsense just got stuck (or maybe DOSed, but I can’t tell because of missing logs), and I had to reboot from the serial console to restore functionality quickly.
After the system came back up trouble-...
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Can I tell eclipse debugger to print to console/log?
Related question:
https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/225243/is-printing-to-console-stdout-a-good-debugging-strategy
We have something like this
private int myFunction(int i)
{
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How can I get my Cygwin SSH server to log into a file?
On proper Linux systems, the SSH server typically logs into a file, e.g. /var/log/auth.log or /var/log/syslog etc. But - that doesn't exist on my Cygwin system; and merely editing /etc/sshd_config ...
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Where can you see the data that's been recorded by a tracking cookie?
I've always read that cookies can, and do, store sensitive information such as OTHER websites that you've visited outside the one to which the cookie belongs.
I've started to read up about it and can ...
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Tracking SSH access on a client MacOS machine
There are many sources describing how to track and detect SSH attempt on a server. What I am asking is the opposite. I have a MacOS (Ventura) and I would like to track where this machine has SSH-...
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Programmatically detect whether a display is attached to the computer or not
I have an unattended computer that runs software on a screen basically 24/7, and I'd like to be able to detect if the display has lost power or otherwise isn't detected by the computer.
The Windows ...
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Log file name based on application with syslog-ng
I'm using syslog-ng and currently my config only separates log files based on ip address and facility:
source s_network_udp {
syslog(transport(udp) port(514));
};
destination d_local {
file("...
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Which Windows event is generated for external USB storage mounted as a disk volume?
What is the Windows event generated when an external USB storage is mounted as a disk volume in the OS?
Events like PnP events are triggered even if the external USB storage drive is blocked by AD ...
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What does "Still Running" mean (Linux)?
$ last -x reboot
reboot system boot 4.4.0-46-generic Mon Nov 14 12:15 still running
What does the "still running" mean at the end of the log entry?
Did the server reboot?
Is it going try later?
Is ...