Logs

This menu allows you to view the last 25/50/100 lines in FreshTomato's system log, or even the entire contents of the log file (View All).
The size of All is based on the Logging setting you manually configure.1)





Clicking on the Scroll to bottom link will cause the window display to scroll to the last log entry.

By default, log contents are shown formatted in HTML (see above screenshot). Some content is color-coded, to indicate types of log entries, like errors, warnings and so on.


Clicking on one of the Trim to last x entries links will display only the last x number of entries.


Logs can be displayed as plain text by clicking on any of the (RAW) links. Clicking one of these links will display log content trimmed to the last x entries, where x represents the number of log entry lines.


The Filter level dropdown narrows your view to only the message type(s) you specify. For example, choosing Warning will display only Warning messages. To find something more specific, type your search term in the Find in Syslog box. Only log content including that text will be shown. Words that match your entry will be highlighted in yellow.


If you click any line in the log displayed in HTML, an orange box to the left of Refresh Every appears, stating: “Highlighted row copied to clipboard”. This is useful when searching the Web for the event, or when requesting help somewhere on the Tomato or other forums.


You can download the log to your local device. The saved log will be in plain text format.


Logging Configuration: This takes you to the Logging menu, where you can can configure logging and Web Monitoring settings.

Consider logging to USB storage or other permanent media. Doing so has many benefits.


The value chosen in the Refresh Every dropdown specifies how often FreshTomato refreshes the main Logs screen. The default setting is once per second. Clicking on Refresh forces a display refresh, even between automatic refresh periods.


Clicking Stop pauses the display of new Log entries. New entries won't be displayed until you click Refresh again.


The (plain text) log file can be found at: “/var/log/messages”.


1)
The size of the log (file size) is determined by your uptime (how long your system has been creating log entries). Logging configuration determines maximum size.