07-26-2007
Log Files
Hello, I have a rather broad question here. I've been a Unix Administrator now for about 2 years and the one part of my job that gives me a headache is reading log files. While some of the messages are rather straight forward to understand, there are still some messages that might as well be written in Latin. I know there are dozens of utilities out there to help read log files and to parse out the messages of concern from the fluff, but I'd like to know exactly line-by-line what each message means. Does anyone have any advice on books I could pick up, newsgroups I could read, man pages to pour over, anything to help me understand exactly what my system is telling me?
Thanks.
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