Log rotation, a normal thing on Linux systems, keeps any particular log file from becoming too large, yet ensures that sufficient details on system activities are still available for proper system ...

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 ...

OS X includes a number of tools that can be useful for troubleshooting purposes. Console, which you’ll find in the Applications -> Utilities folder, is one such tool. Console is a front-end for all ...

Considering how much information is available in log files, you’d think companies would pay more attention to them. Client computers, servers, firewalls, network devices, and other appliances generate ...

Running a DNS-321 on my home network, fun-plugged it and got Vsftpd up and running. I cannot however get it to actually log any activity in the 2 log files I created in /ffp/var/log following this ...

No matter how large or small your streaming media infrastructure is, it’s critical to know how it’s performing. In fact, your existence is probably intimately tied to how well your system is working.

Because of both the rising cost of security incidents and a host of recent regulatory changes, enterprises can no longer afford to overlook the value of their log files. Particularly on the regulatory ...

Whenever I have a mystery to uncover about lost storage space, I fire up DaisyDisk, a disk-usage visualization app. While the $9.99 price tag may seem steep for its purpose of plotting out what is ...

The transaction log file contains the SQL Server transactions of the database. It basically records the database transactions and the changes made by the transactions to the database. The logs are ...