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2014 in Commands, File system, LinuxI am a new Linux user. I log file in unix shell script would like to know where are the log files
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located under Debian/Ubuntu or CentOS/RHEL/Fedora Linux server? How do I open or view log
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files on Linux operating systems? Almost all logfiles are located under /var/log directory and its sub-directories on Linux. You can change to this directory
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using the cd command. You need be the root user to view or access log files on Linux or Unix like operating systems. You can use the following commands to see the log files:less commandmore commandcat commandgrep commandtail commandzcat commandzgrep commandzmore commandHow do I view log files how to view a log file in unix on Linux?Open the Terminal or login as root user using ssh command. Go to /var/log directory using the following cd command: # cd /var/log
To list files use the following ls command: # ls Sample outputs from RHEL 6.x server:anaconda.ifcfg.log boot.log-20111225 cron-20131110.gz maillog-20111218 messages-20131103.gz secure-20131027.gz spooler-20131117.gz up2date-20131117.gz anaconda.log btmp cron-20131117.gz maillog-20111225 messages-20131110.gz secure-20131103.gz squid uptrack.log anaconda.program.log btmp-20120101 cups maillog-20120101 messages-20131117.gz secure-20131110.gz swinstall.d uptrack.log.1 anaconda.storage.log btmp-20131101.gz dkms_autoinstaller maillog-20131027.gz mysqld.log secure-20131117.gz tallylog uptrack.log.2 anaconda.syslog collectl dmesg maillog-20131103.gz ntpstats setroubleshoot UcliEvt.log varnish anaconda.yum.log ConsoleKit dmesg.old maillog-20131110.gz prelink spooler up2date wtmp arcconfig.xml cron dracut.log maillog-20131117.gz rhsm spooler-20111211 up2date-20111211 yum.log atop cron-20111211 dracut.log-20120101 messages sa spooler-20111218 up2date-20111218 yum.log-20120101 audit cron-20111218 dracut.log-20130101.gz messages-20111211 secure spooler-20111225 up2date-20111225 yum.log-20130101.gz boot.log cron-20111225 httpd messages-20111218 secure-20111211 spooler-20120101 up2date-20120101 boot.log-20111204 cron-20120101 lastlog messages-20111225 secure-20111218 spooler-20131027.gz up2date-20131027.gz boot.log-20111211 cron-20131027.gz maillog messages-20120101 secure-20111225 spooler-20131103.gz up2date-20131103.gz boot.log-20111218 cron-20131103.gz maillog-20111211 messages-20131027.gz secure-20120101 spooler-20131110.gz up2date- Directories Unix - File Permission Unix - Environment Unix - Basic Utilities Unix - Pipes & Filters Unix - Processes Unix - https://www.tutorialspoint.com/unix/unix-system-logging.htm Communication Unix - The vi Editor Unix Shell Programming Unix - What is Shell? Unix - Using Variables Unix - Special Variables Unix - Using Arrays Unix - Basic https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LinuxLogFiles Operators Unix - Decision Making Unix - Shell Loops Unix - Loop Control Unix - Shell Substitutions Unix - Quoting Mechanisms Unix - IO Redirections Unix - Shell Functions log file Unix - Manpage Help Advanced Unix Unix - Regular Expressions Unix - File System Basics Unix - User Administration Unix - System Performance Unix - System Logging Unix - Signals and Traps Unix Useful Resources Unix - Useful Commands Unix - Quick Guide Unix - Builtin Functions Unix - System Calls Unix - Commands List Unix - Useful log file in Resources Unix - Discussion Selected Reading Developer's Best Practices Questions and Answers Effective Resume Writing HR Interview Questions Computer Glossary Who is Who Unix - System Logging Advertisements Previous Page Next Page Unix systems have a very flexible and powerful logging system, which enables you to record almost anything you can imagine and then manipulate the logs to retrieve the information you require. Many versions of UNIX provide a general-purpose logging facility called syslog. Individual programs that need to have information logged send the information to syslog. Unix syslog is a host-configurable, uniform system logging facility. The system uses a centralized system logging process that runs the program /etc/syslogd or /etc/syslog. The operation of the system logger is quite straightforward. Programs send their log entries to syslogd, which consults the configuration file /etc/syslogd.conf or /etc/syslog and, when a match is found, writes the log message to the desired log file. There are four basic syslog terms that you should understand − Term Description Facility The identifier used to describe the applicatio
Introduction Target Audience System Logs Authorization Log Daemon Log Debug Log Kernel Log Kernel Ring Buffer System Log Application Logs Apache HTTP Server Logs CUPS Print System Logs Rootkit Hunter Log Samba SMB Server Logs X11 Server Log Non-Human-Readable Logs Login Failures Log Last Logins Log Login Records Log System Logging Daemon (syslogd) Configuration of syslogd Echoing Messages to syslogd With Logger Log Rotation Essential Commands Getting Started Editing Files Viewing Files Viewing the Beginning of Files Viewing the End of Files Watching a Changing File Searching Files Resources Local System Resources WWW Resources Introduction One of the things which makes GNU/Linux a great operating system is that virtually anything and everything happening on and to the system may be logged in some manner. This information is invaluable for using the system in an informed manner, and should be one of the first resources you use to trouble-shoot system and application issues. The logs can tell you almost anything you need to know, as long as you have an idea where to look first. Your Ubuntu system provides vital information using various system log files. These log files are typically plain ASCII text in a standard log file format, and most of them sit in the traditional system log subdirectory /var/log. Many are generated by the system log daemon, syslogd on behalf of the system and certain applications, while some applications generate their own logs by writing directly to files in /var/log. This guide talks about how to read and use several of these system log files, how to use and configure the system logging daemon, syslogd, and how log rotation works. See the Resources section for additional information. Target Audience This guide will be simple enough to use if you have any experience using the console and editing text files using a text