You can configure Webmin's System Logs module to be a one-stop source for all logging information about your system. In this recipe, we'll demonstrate how easy it is to quickly view and scan through logfiles using Webmin's interface. In the two recipes following this one, we'll show you how to add other logfiles to this module to create a comprehensive overview of your system's activity.
In this recipe, we'll inspect the auth.log file at /var/log/, which keeps a log of messages related to authentication and authorization. This file is present by default on most systems from the Debian family, but if you're using a different system, you may not find it. You can add this file to your system by following the recipe, Saving Syslog messages to a file.
You can, of course, follow the same steps to view any other file listed in the System Logs module.