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Freenas, rsyncd max log size


I've been experiencing some issues with Rsync, and want to read the errors in the log file, however, somewhere it caps at 32kb, which means about 4 minutes, and I really need to be able to look at least 24hours back.

Eg:

32 -rw-------  1 root  wheel   32768 Nov 16 08:46 daemon.log
32 -rw-------  1 root  wheel   32768 Nov 15 13:53 ftp.log
32 -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   32768 Nov 16 08:26 lastlog
 4 drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel     512 Oct 26 22:17 proftpd
 0 -rw-rw-rw-  1 root  wheel       0 Sep 15 13:21 rsync_client.log
 0 -rw-rw-rw-  1 root  wheel       0 Sep 15 13:21 rsync_local.log
32 -rw-------  1 root  wheel   32768 Nov 16 08:49 rsyncd.log

How do I increase the max size?


Solution

  • Change nentries value in /conf/config.xml :

        <syslogd>
                <nentries>50</nentries>
                <!--
                <reverse/>
                <resolve/>
                <remote>
                        <enable/>
                        <ipaddr>xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx</ipaddr>
                        <daemon/>
                        <ftp/>
                        <rsyncd/>
                        <smartd/>
                        <sshd/>
                        <system/>
                </remote>
                -->
        </syslogd>