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pfSense 2 Cookbook
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pfSense 2 Cookbook

by Matt Williamson
March 2011
Intermediate to advanced
252 pages
4h 24m
English
Packt Publishing
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Viewing system logs

This recipe describes how to view the pfSense system logs.

How to do it...

  1. Browse to Status | System logs.
  2. Click the Settings tab.
  3. Check Show log entries in reverse order (newest entries on top).
  4. Save the changes.
  5. Click the DHCP tab (for example) to view the most recent DHCP events:
    How to do it...

How it works...

pfSense records significant events and logs them internally. The System logs menu item allows us to view the logs to help troubleshoot a variety of administrative issues.

The following sections describe how configure the alternate log views provided for firewall events.

There's more...

Logging information is gathered and displayed for the following ...

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