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Recording activity on the system (or of a particular program) for later reporting and analysis. Logins, logouts, web server page requests, etc might all be logged.

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How to filter journalctl output by process name?

When a process logs to systemd, its process name is recorded and displayed as identifier in the journalctl output. $ systemd-cat echo "test" $ journalctl -f -- Logs begin at Sat 2018-02-24 12:13:24 CET. -- ... Jul 25 13:52:26 mycomputer echo[25098]:…
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Disable Nginx Logging for "forbidden by rule"

In my Nginx config I have some IP blocks in place, to fight off spammers & bots. This is very effective, but as a result, my error logs get filled up super fast with error messages like these: 2015/12/16 00:56:28 [error] 27748#0: *120462 access…
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How do you configure runit logging

I am having trouble setting a service with logging using runit. Here is a brief overview of files and scripts I created according to runit's documentation and other resources I found on the internet: I am using runit under debian,…
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Is there a Midnight Commander log or history file?

Sometimes I have to track down user activity on remote machines. Linux audit and messages log are of course a great help; .bash_history is also very helpful, but it's not very verbose as a lot of people here just use Midnight Commander for running…
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Windows 7 and print jobs logging

Is it possible to log the print jobs in Windows 7? I can only enable the PrintService log that does not have the print jobs events.
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*nix convention for storing user logs?

What’s a conventional log location for processes that run on behalf of users? ~/.foo/logs/ — my top choice but not super awesome /var/log/foo.uid/ — Non-system users can’t create directories here, needs cooperation to create in the first place. A…
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Rotating logs generated by a process that logs to stdin

I have a long running process, that writes its log file to stdout. I would like to save this output to different files, automatically maintain these files (like deleting/archiving the old ones), without restarting the main process. On solution would…
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Can I delete error log files in apache. Will it cause an issue?

Possible Duplicate: Logrotate configuration for httpd (CentOS) can I delete error log files in apache. Any issue? Because it eats my server space
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How to debug Samba authorization (authentication) procedure

I'm running a small home network linux-based server which acts as an internet router, torrent client and file server. I have problems connecting Windows clients to server Samba shares ('user name or password is invalid'). How can I enable logging of…
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How to log the URL scheme (http / https) in Apache?

nginx has the $scheme variable usable in its log_format lines. %H is the request protocol (e.g. "HTTP/1.1"). How can I do the same with Apache?
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Can postgres internal log rotation mechanism delete log files older than a certain time?

I am using posgtres' internal log rotation mechanism. I would like log files older than 30 days to be deleted. How do I get postgres to do this? If postgres does not support it, can I set logrotate to just delete logs older than 30 days? My current…
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NginX Log Rotation

I am serving a couple different domains through NginX on the same server and they each log to their own file. I need to set up a script to rotate, and compress these files and add it to cron. I know I have to do something to get NginX to open a…
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Can I log vi activity?

Is there any method to log vi activities? I suspect that another user is issuing commands by going into the shell inside the vi editor, apparently those command doesn't record into history.
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The most powerful open source web analytics tools?

Need some advices on choosing open source web analytics tools, including both of page tagging and log file analysis type. I know some of them: piwik, open web analytics, awstats and more... what are the best ones among them(page tagging type and log…
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Colour tail of Apache logs

Monitoring apache logs with tail –f tends gets very frustrating for the eyes after a while. Are there any tool/options to colorize the log outputs? Maybe signal FATAL with red, etc...
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