Syslog messages circulate around your network and provide valuable information for system monitoring. You don't have to pay anything for this information if you use a free Syslog server. The Syslog ...

Whatever else you do to secure a Linux system, it must have comprehensive, accurate and carefully watched logs. Logs serve several purposes. First, they help us troubleshoot virtually all kinds of ...

Jack Wallen walks you through the process of setting up a centralized Linux log server using syslog-ng. Let’s say your data center is filled with Linux servers and you need to administer them all.

Applications that need to log messages during their execution may use the syslog API. There is more than one way to use this interface, of which only one will be presented here. I urge you to consult ...

(SYStem LOG protocol) A protocol for transmitting event messages and alerts across an IP network. Messages are sent by the operating system or application at the start or end of a process or to report ...