How to check rclone logs and what files are uploading?

Hi, I am running rclone and mounted my rclone.service but not sure how to check what is uploading on the onedrive or other cloud services and when rclone stopped uploading because I reached the daily limit. Need little help with this. Thank you

use a rclone log file
https://rclone.org/docs/#log-file-file
https://rclone.org/docs/#log-level-level

Hi, thank you so much for quick reply. Is there anyway I can add the log file like that in the service file?

--log-level INFO --log-file "/home/istvan/.config/rclone/rclone.log"

# /etc/systemd/system/rclone.service
[Unit]
Description=Rclone VFS Mount
After=network-online.target

[Service]
User=1000
Group=1000
Type=notify
#ExecStartPre=/bin/sleep 10
ExecStart=/usr/bin/rclone mount \
  --allow-other \
  --buffer-size=64M \
  --config=/home/istvan/.config/rclone/rclone.conf \
  --log-level INFO --log-file "/home/istvan/.config/rclone/rclone.log" \
  --dir-cache-time=168h \
  --drive-chunk-size=64M \
  --drive-skip-gdocs \
  --fast-list \
  --rc \
  --rc-web-gui \
  --syslog \
  --timeout=10m \
  --umask=002 \
  --vfs-read-chunk-size-limit=2048M \
  --vfs-read-chunk-size=64M \
  -v \
  google: /mnt/remote
ExecStop=/bin/fusermount -uz /mnt/remote
Restart=on-abort
RestartSec=5
StartLimitInterval=60s
StartLimitBurst=3

[Install]
WantedBy=default.target

now that you posted your service file, i can see that you already add those flags to your command.

Hooray, thank you so much for that. Let me quickly reload the demon and see the log. I will update you. Thanks again

Oops I am getting this now after updating the service file

istvan@istvan:~$ sudo systemctl restart rclone.service 
Job for rclone.service failed because the control process exited with error code.
See "systemctl status rclone.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.
istvan@istvan:~$ sudo systemctl status rclone.service 
● rclone.service - Rclone VFS Mount
   Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/rclone.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Sat 2020-11-28 20:12:42 UTC; 18s ago
  Process: 16325 ExecStop=/bin/fusermount -uz /mnt/remote (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
  Process: 16327 ExecStart=/usr/bin/rclone mount --allow-other --buffer-size=64M --config=/home/istvan/.config/rclone/rclone.conf --log-level INFO --log-file /home/istvan/.config/rclone/rclone.log --dir-cache-time=168h --drive-ch
 Main PID: 16327 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

Nov 28 20:12:42 istvan systemd[1]: Starting Rclone VFS Mount...
Nov 28 20:12:42 istvan systemd[1]: rclone.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Nov 28 20:12:42 istvan systemd[1]: rclone.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Nov 28 20:12:42 istvan systemd[1]: Failed to start Rclone VFS Mount.

Oh yes thats why

2020/11/28 20:12:42 Can't use --syslog and --log-file together
2020/11/28 20:17:05 Can't use --syslog and --log-file together

Not sure what --syslog does?

if you do not understand what --syslog does, then why is it in your rclone command?

Because someone else help me out just like you are trying to help me.

I removed the syslog but still getting same error

istvan@istvan:~$ systemctl status rclone.service
Warning: The unit file, source configuration file or drop-ins of rclone.service changed on disk. Run 'systemctl daemon-reload' to reload units.
● rclone.service - Rclone VFS Mount
   Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/rclone.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Sat 2020-11-28 20:28:57 UTC; 12s ago
  Process: 18925 ExecStart=/usr/bin/rclone mount --allow-other --buffer-size=64M --config=/home/istvan/.config/rclone/rclone.conf --log-level INFO --log-file /home/istvan/.config/rclone/rclone.log --dir-cache-time=168h --drive-ch
 Main PID: 18925 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

Nov 28 20:28:57 istvan systemd[1]: Starting Rclone VFS Mount...
Nov 28 20:28:57 istvan systemd[1]: rclone.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Nov 28 20:28:57 istvan systemd[1]: rclone.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Nov 28 20:28:57 istvan systemd[1]: Failed to start Rclone VFS Mount.
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istvan@istvan:~$ sudo systemctl daemon-reload
istvan@istvan:~$ sudo systemctl restart rclone.service 
Job for rclone.service failed because the control process exited with error code.
See "systemctl status rclone.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.
istvan@istvan:~$ systemctl status rclone.service
● rclone.service - Rclone VFS Mount
   Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/rclone.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Sat 2020-11-28 20:33:21 UTC; 3s ago
  Process: 19681 ExecStart=/usr/bin/rclone mount --allow-other --buffer-size=64M --config=/home/istvan/.config/rclone/rclone.conf --log-level INFO --log
 Main PID: 19681 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

Nov 28 20:33:20 istvan systemd[1]: Starting Rclone VFS Mount...
Nov 28 20:33:21 istvan systemd[1]: rclone.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Nov 28 20:33:21 istvan systemd[1]: rclone.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Nov 28 20:33:21 istvan systemd[1]: Failed to start Rclone VFS Mount.
  --allow-other \
  --buffer-size=64M \
  --config=/home/istvan/.config/rclone/rclone.conf \
  --log-level INFO \
  --log-file=/home/istvan/.config/rclone/rclone.log \
  --dir-cache-time=168h \
  --drive-chunk-size=64M \
  --drive-skip-gdocs \
  --fast-list \
  --rc \
  --rc-web-gui \
  --timeout=10m \
  --umask=002 \
  --vfs-read-chunk-size-limit=2048M \
  --vfs-read-chunk-size=64M \

I also tried with this --log-file "/home/istvan/.config/rclone/rclone.log" \

But same output

i am not an expert of service files.

i would run the rclone command from the command line, not using service file.
when that works, then try to use a service file.

and this is an example service file that i have used in the past.
https://github.com/animosity22/homescripts/blob/master/systemd/rclone.service

Thank you so much for the link I will go through and try to replicate yours and thanks again. I saved the link too :slight_smile:

I hope in meantime someone can pick this up for me. Thanks agian

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