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Linux network audit
I have a server with Linux Red-hat Enterprise Edition 5.4 installed.
and a client/server application that permits connection at the port 6000, but it doesn't offer connections log.
I want to know ...
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How do I configure rsyslog to write to /var/log/{hostname of sender} when receiving remote logs?
My ADSL modem supports remote logging via syslog. I have set up my server, running rsyslog, to accept the log messages from the modem and they are being show in /var/log/syslog along with the messages ...
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How sync files with s3cmd to Amazon S3, check if sent and remove locally?
I'm trying to use Amazon S3 service to store logs from my applications.
Given /user/bin/s3cmd --help tells me what I need to know how send the files:
s3cmd --help
usage: s3cmd [options] COMMAND [...
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Find the differences between versions of a log file
Is there a utility that will show you a difference in a directory of log files at one point of time and at the current moment?
Current a method in debugging applications is to remove all of the logs ...
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Create a logging program
I want to create a program that logs all the processes started by the user and confirms after they are started. I don't want to log all the syscalls and other daemon processes. I have initially ...
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How to make `script` command loaded automatically on terminal login
script command allows to log gently everything that was put to console during session (like history but also displays results of commands). Everything is logged to file typescript.xxx
Now I want to ...
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3rd party tool for log rotation in Linux?
I want an auto archive all of my log files for an application on my Linux distro.
Also after the log files have been archived,
the actual log files should be deleted (not the archived ones).
I know ...
user2069054
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How to grep logfile via SSH on multiple servers?
Sometime, I need to find out specific log content(such as api call) from log files, those log files exists in several Linux servers.
I have to use SSH to login every server and use grep searching the ...
Sheldon Papa
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Efficient environment for viewing logs [closed]
Currently I am using tail -f for viewing logs.
Is there any more efficient/readable/better way of viewing logs?
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logrotate configuration and execution
I'm trying to configure logrotate to rotate and delete log files every day at midnight, but have never used it before. So: (a) I want to confirm that my configuration is correct, and (b) I need help ...
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logging RAM memory high-water mark of a Linux process
I would like to log the RAM memory high-water mark of a Linux process (kernel 3.2.0-36) by the time the process finishes. I am calling the process inside a Perl script. Something like:
my $cmd = "...
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Figuring out how my /etc/ folder got deleted [closed]
I was playing around with my sendmail configuration in the /etc/ folder, and then, somehow, the contents of my /etc/ folder went away, and I'm unsure of how. From /var/log/auth.log:
Nov 8 10:28:42 ...
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How to find what is written to filesystem under linux
How can i find out what processes write to a specific disc over time?
In my particular case I got a little homeserver running 24/7 and I included a script in the crontab to shutdown all drives that ...
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How do I save log files to another partition?
I have the following :
uname -a :
2.6.31-14-generic-pae #48-Ubuntu SMP Fri Oct 16 15:22:42 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux
df -h :
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 ...
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Redirecting output from syslog to own log
I'm following this tutorial: Using Fail2ban To Block Wrong ISPConfig Logins, but rsyslog won't redirect the output from a file to another:
/etc/rsyslog.d/12-ispconfig.conf:
if $programname == '...
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