Whatever else you do to secure a Linux system, it must have comprehensive, accurate and carefully watched logs. Logs serve several purposes. First, they help us troubleshoot virtually all kinds of ...

Jack Wallen walks you through the process of setting up a centralized Linux log server using syslog-ng. Let’s say your data center is filled with Linux servers and you need to administer them all.

Log files. They're there for a reason -- to keep track of what goes on behind the velvet curtain of your operating system. When things go wrong, entries are added to those log files, so you can view ...

Syslog messages circulate around your network and provide valuable information for system monitoring. You don't have to pay anything for this information if you use a free Syslog server. The Syslog ...

Linux systems maintain quite a collection of log files, many of which you are probably rarely tempted to view. Some of these log files are quite valuable, though, and options for exploring them might ...

The syslog deamon (syslogd) on Unix systems provides message logging for other services so that each service doesn’t have to duplicate the same basic functionality to manage logging for itself. The ...

Log rotation, a normal thing on Linux systems, keeps any particular log file from becoming too large, yet ensures that sufficient details on system activities are still available for proper system ...

Writing some messages to multiple locations is a pretty normal thing in all UNIX / Linux syslog configurations, so I would just leave it alone. You're not going to gain much of anything for all the ...

Linux 101: How to easily view real-time log entries with tail Your email has been sent The tail command makes it easy to view log entries as they are written in real-time. Jack Wallen shows you how to ...