Hello,
on the Mikrotik router I find a file that regenerates automatically on the /file part, even if I delete it
the file is named: console-dump.txt
has anyone ever had this problem?
Your device might be hacked!
Reset your router and see the configuration described here as an example - http://forum.mikrotik.com/t/buying-rb1100ahx4-dude-edition-questions-about-firewall/148996/4
And the file content?
Perfect, you specified both the RouterOS version and the Router model used. This is how it’s done…
Have you ever thought of simply opening the plain text file and seeing what’s written inside?
Nothing to worry about. It’s a file that is automatically created when “something” crashes the terminal.
If you open it, sometimes there are details inside.
yes, I’ve already opened the file, I find that Message exchange OSPF .
Mkrotik used in a private Interco scenario, with routing
I have Mikrotik models: CCR1009-7G-1C-1S+ and CCR1016-12S-1S+.
and current-firmware: 7.16
what’s strange, between two Mikrotik similar in model and ios version, and the same configuration, on one the file regenerates and increases its size, and on the other I can’t find the file, I searched a lot on the conf, I can’t find anything wrong between the two.
Do you perhaps have logging action (defined in /system/logging) that writes logs to disk - to that particular file?
Do you perhaps have firewall filter rule (could have action=accept) with log=yes configured?
I’m not familiar with routing protocols setup, but configuration of those might also include logging things?
Hello,
no logging action is written to disk
and no firewall filter rules
and no routing logging.
I retrieved the configuration terse and I looked for the difference between two Mikrotik, but I found nothing as different between the two.
which is also blizzard the file tail exceeds 430 M, and not to leave the disk size full,
I proceeded to create a script that deletes the file console-dump.txt from the disk /file scheduled to be executed every 48h.
@rextended is right– it’s “normal” if there is a crash… but console should not “crash” in the first place & likely why MT generates a file so they have some data to fix the crash.
If it’s getting regularly generated, you should open a ticket with Mikrotik with the console-dump.txt.