Description
This article describes that the crash log contains system crashes and events that can help to determine the cause of an issue and how to clear the contents of the crash log.
Scope
FortiGate.
Solution
To check that the crash log has been cleared or to read the crash log use:
diagnose debug crashlog read
If the number of lines in crash log read output matches the maximum number of lines that the device can store, clear crash logs. This is required to see the new crash logs generated by the device:
16384: 2025-01-08 05:38:09 the killed daemon is /bin/eap_proxy: status=0x0
Crash log interval is 3600 seconds
Max crash log line number: 16384
To clear the crash log, run the following command:
diagnose debug crashlog clear
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