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--- admin-log [2024/10/21 02:33] – [Syslog] -Condense, formatting hogwild
+++ admin-log [2025/03/09 15:11] (current) – [Syslog] -Condense Log to Remote System hogwild
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 **Log To Remote System: **provides network support to the syslogd facility.
-This means messages can be forwarded from one node running syslogd to another node running syslogd, where they'll be logged to a disk file. ((
+Thus, messages can be forwarded from one node running syslogd to another running syslogd, where they'll be logged to disk. ((
 [[https://linux.die.net/man/8/syslogd|https://linux.die.net/man/8/syslogd]]
 ))
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 **Minimum Log Level:**  selects the minimum level of messages to be logged.
-Here, "minimum" means that whichever option you select from the list, that level's messages and all those higher in the list will be logged.
+"Minimum" means whichever option you select, that level's messages and all those above it in the list will be logged.
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 ===== Web Monitor =====
-**Enable >>** Takes you to the //Administration///Logging menu (and Syslog settings).
+**Enable >>** takes you to the //Administration///[[admin-log|Logging]] menu (and Syslog settings).
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-**Monitor Web Usage:** Enables/disables Web Monitoring. (Default: Disabled).
+**Monitor Web Usage:** enables/disables Web Monitoring. (Default: Disabled).
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-**Monitor**: Select the Device/s you wish to monitor.
+**Monitor**: select the Device/s you wish to monitor.
-  * All Computers /Devices * - Monitors all devices (Default).
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-  * The following - Monitors only devices entered here.
-  * All except - Monitors all devices except those entered here.
+  * All Computers /Devices * - monitors all devices (Default).
+  * The following - monitors only devices entered here.
+  * All except - monitors all devices except those entered here.
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-**Number of Entries to remember**: The number of //Domains// visited and the number of //Searches// to record in the log file.
+**Number of Entries to remember**: the number of //Domains// visited and number of //Searches// to record in the log.
-Entering: "0" makes the number unlimited (and therefore) allows an unlimited log size. Verify you have the storage space.
+Entering: "0" disables logging of domains / searches.
+Almost all sites and search engines nowadays use http**s** so not every domain can be logged, only those invoked with http. As all search engines use https logging of searches has become impossible, so this feature is not functional anymore.
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-**Daily Backup**: Enables backup of Web Monitor logs to the default backup directory. (Default: Disabled).
+**Daily Backup**: enables backup of Web Monitor logs to the default backup directory. (Default: Disabled).
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-**Clear Data After Backup**: If enabled, empties the log file after a backup is performed. (Default: Disabled)
+**Clear Data After Backup**: empties the log file after a backup is performed. (Default: Disabled)
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-**Backup Directory**: Specifies where backup files will be stored. (Default: /tmp).
+**Backup Directory**: specifies where backup files will be stored. (Default: /tmp).
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-NOTE: The default (\tmp) folder contents are emptied after reboot. Consider using USB/CIFS/JFFS as permanent storage.
+NOTE: The contents of the default "/tmp" folder are emptied on reboot. Consider using USB/CIFS/JFFS as permanent storage.
-===== Web Usage/Web Monitor Notes =====
+===== Web Usage/Web Monitor Notes and Troubleshooting =====
-Web usage won't work properly if the FreshTomato client to monitor is running a direct TOR or VPN Internet connection. FreshTomato cannot monitor such connections since they are already encrypted. This can also include some IPv6 tunneling protocols, such as 6in4 Static tunnel.
+Web usage **won't work properly** if the FreshTomato client monitored is running a direct TOR or VPN Internet connection. FreshTomato cannot monitor such connections since they are already encrypted. This can also include some IPv6 tunneling protocols, such as 6in4 Static tunnel.
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