The logrotate facility provides an automatic way for log files to roll over, basically ensuring that they don’t grow so large that they consume too much space on your disk. This also makes them more ...

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 tail command makes it easy to view log entries as they are written in real-time. Jack Wallen shows you how to make use of this indispensable tool. One of the single most helpful tools in your ...

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.

Linux is a computer operating system (Windows and Mac OS X are also examples of operating systems). The thing about Linux though is it comes in many many different forms and can run on pretty much any ...

There exist many types of operating systems and each has specific front end and back end programs with varying compatible troubleshooting features similar to Linux. Most people may not be aware of ...

If you’ve used Linux from the early days (or, like me, started with Unix), you didn’t have to learn as much right away and as things have become more complex, you can kind of pick things up as you go.