Feature #15986
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status_output: increase system log file length, currently limited to 1000 entries
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Description
For troubleshooting purposes it would be nice for the system.log captured with status.php to gather more than 1000 lines.
By comparison a tnsr-diag typically captures up to 50 thousand lines or more of syslog, which doesn't seem to be a problem.
Currently all logs captured with the `status_log_add` function in `status_output.inc` are limited to 1000 entries.
Not sure if it would be better to just increase the global value, or break out the system.log and increase that.
Updated by Jim Pingle 3 months ago
It has to use the function, otherwise if a log was recently rotated it would only get the new/nearly empty file. The function looks into the rotated files/archives and pulls out the most recent number of entries requested there.
We could probably increase it a bit (2500 or 5000 lines maybe?), but I wouldn't just dump in all the logs/archives. We have no idea how large people set their log files, the archives could end up far too large. Comparing pfSense and TNSR logging is also a bit of an apples/oranges situation. TNSR doesn't allow users to easily adjust the total size of those logs, where pfSense does.
Updated by Craig Coonrad 3 months ago
Yes, an increase to 2500 or 5000 would be great.
I would say 5000, unless you have any concerns with that. Thanks.