Re: event viewer application
For all practical use, following may suffice your need. 1. Install mc (or install task-newbie) to get access to midnight commander. 2. Run from root (Xterm or console) # mc /var/log /proc 3. Play with TAB and all key combination you can think. You really do not need to know unix to navigate this way. Good luck. Osamu On Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 10:55:41AM -0600, Kent West wrote: Wesley Jay Deypalan wrote: hi, im just new to linux, i would like to if debian linux has a program similar to windows nt event viewer. i have seen that program in corel linux but i heard corel linux is mostly for desktop only, we would like it to be server. your help is greatly appreciated. TIA Wesley Jay Deypalan _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. I don't know of a point-and-click app that is similar to Event Viewer, although there might very well be one. However, you can get the same information out of the log files (usually in /var/log). Event Viewer only keeps three logs (System, Security, and Application); Linux keeps quite a few more (such as syslog, mail, smb, etc etc). Some apps might keep their logs elsewhere (for example, Seagate/Veritas's Backup Exec keeps its log in its default directory), but this directory should get you most of the info you need. Kent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- + Osamu Aoki [EMAIL PROTECTED], GnuPG-key: 1024D/D5DE453D + + Fingerprint: 814E BD64 3288 40E7 E88E 3D92 C3F8 EA94 D5DE 453D + + === http://www.aokiconsulting.com === Cupertino, CA USA === +
event viewer application
hi, im just new to linux, i would like to if debian linux has a program similar to windows nt event viewer. i have seen that program in corel linux but i heard corel linux is mostly for desktop only, we would like it to be server. your help is greatly appreciated. TIA Wesley Jay Deypalan _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.
Re: event viewer application
On Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 01:46:24PM +, Wesley Jay Deypalan wrote: hi, im just new to linux, i would like to if debian linux has a program similar to windows nt event viewer. i have seen that program in corel linux but i heard corel linux is mostly for desktop only, we would like it to be server. your help is greatly appreciated. I've never seen event viewer but did a quick look on the web and it looks like a logging tool. If that is the case, yes debian has syslog. sysklogd is the actual daemon that runs. Type man sysklogd into your favorite search engine and you should come up with enough info to give you a basic idea. If I were you I would install debian without any graphical interface and start playing with it, until you become familiar enough to administer it. hth, kent -- From seeing and seeing the seeing has become so exhausted First line of The Panther - R. M. Rilke
Re: event viewer application
Wesley Jay Deypalan wrote: hi, im just new to linux, i would like to if debian linux has a program similar to windows nt event viewer. i have seen that program in corel linux but i heard corel linux is mostly for desktop only, we would like it to be server. your help is greatly appreciated. TIA Wesley Jay Deypalan _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. I don't know of a point-and-click app that is similar to Event Viewer, although there might very well be one. However, you can get the same information out of the log files (usually in /var/log). Event Viewer only keeps three logs (System, Security, and Application); Linux keeps quite a few more (such as syslog, mail, smb, etc etc). Some apps might keep their logs elsewhere (for example, Seagate/Veritas's Backup Exec keeps its log in its default directory), but this directory should get you most of the info you need. Kent
Re: event viewer application
Wesley Jay Deypalan wrote: im just new to linux, i would like to if debian linux has a program similar to windows nt event viewer. i have seen that program in corel linux but i heard corel linux is mostly for desktop only, we would like it to be server. your help is greatly appreciated. ktb wrote: I've never seen event viewer but did a quick look on the web and it looks like a logging tool. If that is the case, yes debian has syslog. sysklogd is the actual daemon that runs. Type man sysklogd into your favorite search engine and you should come up with enough info to give you a basic idea. If I were you I would install debian without any graphical interface and start playing with it, until you become familiar enough to administer it. To cover a few basics, the logfiles mostly live in /var/log, and are rotated into gzipped archives on (usually) a daily basis, with a week's worth around at any point. When something goes wrong, the debugging process almost always starts with ls -lrt /var/log/ and tail -f /var/log/whateverlog (you can read them without being root if you're in the adm group). I don't know of any good GUI logfile-readers, but anyway I wouldn't swap one for what I have got - the package logcheck, which monitors the logs for anomalies and mails me regular edited highlights. -- Justin B Rye - writing from but not for Datacash Ltd
