Chapter 5
Managing Services
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.