Wednesday, December 4, 2013

Server Message Logging



By default, all logs in Linux OS are located in the directory /var/log/. Some important log files are:

/var/log/messages 

It stores logs from many OS Linux services, such as:
Kernel logger,
Network manager,
Logs differ between applications and services ….

/var/log/dmesg

It contains information about hardware found by the kernel drivers. It can help you troubleshoot hardware problems and missing drivers.

/bin/dmesg 

It provides more detailed information in real time, while the log file keeps less information for historical purposes.

/var/log/audit/audit.log

It’s the file in which the Linux Auditing System (auditd) writes its logs, including all SELinux information.
If auditd is disabled, SELinux sends its logs to /var/log/messages.
You can check its status with the command sestatus.
 

+Red Hat +Gnu Linux Os Information 

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