Whatever else you do to secure a Linux system, it must have comprehensive, accurate and carefully watched logs. Logs serve several purposes. First, they help us troubleshoot virtually all kinds of ...

An important part of any project, logging can be used as a debugging tool during development, and a troubleshooting tool once a system has been deployed in a production environment. Because most ...

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 ...

We have a couple of apps (among them Networker) that add various things to /etc/syslog.conf, and consequently are displeased by its removal in RHEL 6 and its CentOS stablemate. Is there any problem ...

Lance Spitzner of the Honeynet Project (www.honeynet.org) suggests a trick that's useful for honey (decoy) nets and maybe even for production DMZs: stealth logging. This trick allows a host connected ...