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Review "view logs on Fedora" quick-doc - Remove Caution - Review and Check View Log Information via Systemctl - Add Using journalctl to View Log Information for a Specific Service - Add to know more about systemd -> understanding-and-administering-systemd - Sections can be moved up one level replaceing rsyslog - Improve con_viewing-logs.adoc with adding some usefull information - Change in using nano and vim to you can use favourite text editor - Remove rsyslog completly - Add -b and --list-boots if the user needs flter log messages for the current boot or view old log's - instead of using bold for commands and file/folder names, maybe make them monospace too. That does'nt work in _NOTE_ - "Using the command line to open log files in a text editor" -> "Use a text editor" as a separate section. - Observe a Warning when editing view_log.adoc and there is a PR in ASCCIDOCTOR https://github.com/asciidoctor/asciidoctor/issues/2855. [Ticket: 107] - https://pagure.io/fedora-docs/quick-docs/issue/107
2019-03-28 12:17:36 +00:00
[id='viewing-logs in Fedora']
Viewing logs (joflynn)
2018-07-10 14:49:26 +00:00
Cosmetic improvements to view-logs header - Move each sentence to separate line. - Add link to systemd upstream pages. - Use Monospace for journalctl. - Remove extra spaces between sentences.
2019-04-05 10:49:37 +00:00
Log files contain messages about the system, including the kernel, services, and applications running on it.
Improve systemd introduction This clarifies that services that use systemd no longer place their logs in plain text files.
2019-04-05 11:17:51 +00:00
These contain information that helps troubleshoot issues, or simply monitor system functions.
Fedora uses the https://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/[systemd] system and service manager.
With systemd, messages for most services are now stored in the systemd journal which is a binary file that must be accessed usinng the `journalctl` command.
Viewing logs (joflynn)
2018-07-10 14:49:26 +00:00
Improve systemd introduction This clarifies that services that use systemd no longer place their logs in plain text files.
2019-04-05 11:17:51 +00:00
System tools that do not use systemd for their logs continue to place them as plain text files in the `/var/log/` directory.
In Fedora, there are two ways of accessing system logs:
Viewing logs (joflynn)
2018-07-10 14:49:26 +00:00
* The command line
Review "view logs on Fedora" quick-doc - Remove Caution - Review and Check View Log Information via Systemctl - Add Using journalctl to View Log Information for a Specific Service - Add to know more about systemd -> understanding-and-administering-systemd - Sections can be moved up one level replaceing rsyslog - Improve con_viewing-logs.adoc with adding some usefull information - Change in using nano and vim to you can use favourite text editor - Remove rsyslog completly - Add -b and --list-boots if the user needs flter log messages for the current boot or view old log's - instead of using bold for commands and file/folder names, maybe make them monospace too. That does'nt work in _NOTE_ - "Using the command line to open log files in a text editor" -> "Use a text editor" as a separate section. - Observe a Warning when editing view_log.adoc and there is a PR in ASCCIDOCTOR https://github.com/asciidoctor/asciidoctor/issues/2855. [Ticket: 107] - https://pagure.io/fedora-docs/quick-docs/issue/107
2019-03-28 12:17:36 +00:00
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