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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Before we dive into setting up any of this we need to do a little prep work. If you are going to be looking at these logs in a web browser then it might be good if the time stamps you are seeing ...

Use the documentation. Man syslogd(8). Specifically you want the '-r' option. You'll probably need to modify your init scripts to get it to take, or they may be a configfile in /etc/defaults or ...