A few Linux commands offer different ways to see which users are logging into your Linux servers, how often they log in, and how long they’ve been active or idle. If you want to get a report to see ...

With the ARRL Field Day just around the corner, I decided, in the spirit of my own Linux Odyssey that I should find and use a new logging program. It is the search for this program that prompted these ...

In the early days of Linux, the syslog process wrote log files as ASCII text files to the /var/log directory. To read them, you needed tools such as the less command. You can still read a log file in ...

It seems to me that all the »hackability« is actually there – it's just not required in many cases because the infrastructure that systemd already provides is adequate. I welcome systemd with both ...

This must-know Linux command will make troubleshooting considerably easier. Quick: What’s the first thing you do when you need to troubleshoot a Linux server? If you answered, “Check log files,” give ...