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How to check Ubuntu crash log in last session?
My headless Ubuntu (11.10) crashed. When I plug in keyboard and monitor, I see an non-interactive cursor (no blink) on a black screen. SSh, telnet don't work from other machines. Ping works.
I have ...
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Text / log editor with auto-refresh support [closed]
I'm looking for a text editor / log manager of some kind that will automatically refresh a file's contents when it changes.
I have a single target log file (e.g. current.log) that is overwritten ...
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Walk me through the Linux log files (please)
I just tried loading a 2MB file in gedit and it silently died on me. I was wondering if anything might appear in a log file that might help me diagnose this: I checked syslog and found out it ...
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logrotate unable to rotate logs, getting "No such file error"
logrotate is unable to rotate my logs. I have checked the file permissions, they are fine.
I have even tried by putting "su root root" in the configuration file, still I am facing the same issue.
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How to stop journalctl showing audit logs and only keep it in a file?
I would like to have all auditd logs only in it's own log file and keep my journalctl view less polluted with events that most of the time, are generated by my own actions (single-user/personal ...
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How to change log level in /var/log/messages?
I'm running SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10, SP2 (SLES10 SP2), and am seeing a large number of what support calls cosmetic errors being logged to /var/log/messages.
Does anyone know of a way to ...
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Writing a CPU/RAM usage log over a period of time to file on CentOS
I'm looking for an application or line of code that would let me observe a process, save the info in a number of variables, then put the gathered info on a file.
I've been trying with variations of ...
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Redirecting command output in docker
I want to do some simple logging for my server which is a small Flask app running in a Docker container.
Here is the Dockerfile
# Dockerfile
FROM dreen/flask
MAINTAINER dreen
WORKDIR /srv
# Get ...
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Where to look when the system crashes or something else horrible goes down?
My Linux Mint workstation is acting funky, it appears to be logging me out randomly, though I'm guessing what's really happening is that the X desktop is crashing. Maybe.
How do I troubleshoot this? ...
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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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What does "Still Running" mean (Linux)?
$ last -x reboot
reboot system boot 4.4.0-46-generic Mon Nov 14 12:15 still running
What does the "still running" mean at the end of the log entry?
Did the server reboot?
Is it going try later?
Is ...
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How can I view live logs on a Linux server (Ubuntu)
How can I view a live log on a Linux server, so that I can see new log entries instantly as they are being added?
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Specify top's screen width in batch mode
I am logging the output of: top -b -n1 -c so I can keep track of which processes are using how much memory and CPU each minute. When top shows the full command line (-c), the command line text gets ...
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Where to find Ubuntu One logs
Ubuntu one does not synchronize files since I upgraded from 9.10 to 10.04. The preferences panel keeps showing "Synchronization in progress...", but files are not downloaded from the repository. It ...
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Journalctl shows logs from about last hour only
I have a problem with journalctl logs, which doesn't show me logs older than about one hour.
First log entry is from about one hour ago, instead of 2 days as requested.
$ date -u
Wed May 13 08:59:21 ...
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