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From looking around the file system, I found in /var/log/ a bunch of log files. I assume (although you know what happens then) that these are generated when different processes are started and stopped. What do I need to do to find what each of these processes do? Same when I run lsof. Lots of info, but I need to figure them out so I can tell what I screwed up! By the way, everyone, I am really, really impressed with this list! The willingness to help is almost overwhelming! I only hope I can do the same someday. Harry G
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from what I know, all the messages in /var/log are generated by the system, whether something goes rite or wrong, it get written to the log. As you use the system from day to day, you dont really have to look at them (unless of course there is a problem) I'd say the main log is messages. that file has pretty much all the info as what was taking place on the system a simple way to query the large log is to cat /var/log/messages | grep whatiminterested_in_finding >querry.log ; cat querry.log Dont waste time trying to "clean up" the log its futile!! the system cron will compress the file every week of so (what you tell it in /etc/rc.config) all the other logs are interestig and useful if you have a problem (try to find that in windows <grin>) hth rob Harry Giles wrote:
From looking around the file system, I found in /var/log/ a bunch of log files. I assume (although you know what happens then) that these are generated when different processes are started and stopped.
What do I need to do to find what each of these processes do? Same when I run lsof. Lots of info, but I need to figure them out so I can tell what I screwed up!
By the way, everyone, I am really, really impressed with this list! The willingness to help is almost overwhelming! I only hope I can do the same someday.
Harry G
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