Linux: Log Files

Sunday, June 2, 2013

Daemon: syslogd

sysklogd this is the package that installs syslogd

klogd this is the daemon that logs kernel messages only

/etc/syslog.conf config file for syslogd

logger

This tool creates manual log entries

Options:

-i records PID

-s echos data to stderr and log file

Rotating log files

logrotate tool for rotating log files

/etc/logrotate.conf config file for logrotate

Watching logs

This is the most important cmd to see whats happening:

tail –f /var/log/messages

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