Log files. They're there for a reason -- to keep track of what goes on behind the velvet curtain of your operating system. When things go wrong, entries are added to those log files, so you can view ...

The syslog deamon (syslogd) on Unix systems provides message logging for other services so that each service doesn’t have to duplicate the same basic functionality to manage logging for itself. The ...

Writing some messages to multiple locations is a pretty normal thing in all UNIX / Linux syslog configurations, so I would just leave it alone. You're not going to gain much of anything for all the ...

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 ...

Use the documentation. Man syslogd(8). Specifically you want the '-r' option. You'll probably need to modify your init scripts to get it to take, or they may be a configfile in /etc/defaults or ...

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 ...