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 ...

Log rotation on Linux systems is more complicated than you might expect. Which log files are rotated, when and how often, whether or not the rotated log files are compressed, and how many instances of ...

How to monitor a Linux log file in real time Your email has been sent This must-know Linux command will make troubleshooting considerably easier. Quick: What’s the first thing you do when you need to ...

Dave tackles analysis of the ugly Apache web server log. I know, in my last article I promised I'd jump back into the mail merge program I started building a while back. Since I'm having some hiccups ...

Control services, read logs, profile boot time, and inspect crashes with these four built-in systemd tools.

How to work more efficiently with log files using Linux csvkit Your email has been sent Image: BEST-BACKGROUNDS/Shutterstock Must-read developer coverage What Powers ...

If you're running Apache, and you probably are, you've got a file called access_log on your server, probably in /etc/httpd or some similar directory. Find it (you can use locate or find if needed).

I’m attending a fantastic session at LinuxWorld today titled “Working with Log Files.” The session is being run by Mark Cohen (Quote.com, LookSmart, Penquin Computing) and Patrick McGovern ...

If you usually keep a known amount of hard-drive space clear, and suddenly find your system running low on space, a problem with the way the system handles log files may be to blame. You can use a ...