As with any operating system, executing service, or program, it is very important to know the state of them in real time. All operating systems and programs store their activities in logs. These logs are text files that are filled with information, messages, and events in order to have a system managed and administrated in the most accurate way.
tail
is a command that prints the last 10 lines of a file to the standard output by default. The most commonly used option for this command isf
. This option will display the data as the file size increases. This command is very helpful to see in real time the information sent to a log.The following list shows the information related to the most commonly used log files in Elastix Unified Communications Server:
/var/log/messages...