On Fri, 7 Jan 2000, Bruce Williams wrote:
> Whats the best way of viewing the log files, and what are the main files to look at.
> I seem to remember that there was a X program to view log files.
Dunno if this is the 'best' way, but I run the following in a telnet
window or at the console:
/usr/bin/tail -f \
/var/log/messages \
/var/log/maillog \
/var/log/secure \
/var/log/httpd/*[a-z] \
/var/log/xferlog
I've only got a handful of users, so this is a convenient way to keep an
eye on things. On a busier system, maillog and httpd logs would probably
get out of hand.
If I want to dig through a particular log file, I use less.
If I want to know if something in particular has happened, I grep.
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