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Hands-On Linux System Administration [Video]

By : Jack-Benny Persson
Book Image

Hands-On Linux System Administration [Video]

By: Jack-Benny Persson

Overview of this book

Have you only come into brief contact with Linux before, but now you need to set up or maintain a Linux server? Then this course is for you. With this course you'll learn how to master any Linux machine. Control and master the administration of a Linux machine, whether a workstation or a server. You'll learn how to set up services, monitor the system, perform backups, and schedule common tasks. By the end of the course you will be ready to start your career as a Linux system administrator. The code bundle for this video course is available at: https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Hands-on-Linux-System-Administration
Table of Contents (6 chapters)
Chapter 5
Managing Services
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Section 4
Reading Logs in /var/log
In this video we learn how to read the logs in /var/log, and what’s the difference in between the logs in /var/log and journalctl. - We begin this video with familiarizing ourselves with the /var/log directory and what we can find in here, and how things are built up with log files for the system and for the services. - Learn how to follow a log file, to view ongoing activities. We also view visitors to our webserver in real time. - Learn how to use two powerful log tools, namely dmesg and last.