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 ...

When a Blue Screen of Death error occurs, Windows displays its details and code for a short time and restart the PC. Even sometimes Windows restart so quickly that ...

Log files come with many challenges. Firstly, they exist as enormous volumes of data. Almost everything that a user does is recorded, meaning that they quickly pile up, and not all of them are useful.

Basically what the subject says. More indepth, I've got a nifty little monitoring program running and one of the things it, and I would like to monitor is the /var/log/messages file. But only root can ...