From the course: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Essential Training

Unlock the full course today

Join today to access over 22,600 courses taught by industry experts or purchase this course individually.

System logging

System logging - Linux Tutorial

From the course: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Essential Training

Start my 1-month free trial

System logging

- (Voiceover) When it comes to logging there's been a change to series Linux enterprise 12. It introduced it's on logging system called Journal. Everything going forward is suppose to be using this system compared to Syslog. Although I will show you ways to connect the two together. We're gonna concentrate on Journal. Journal itself, managed by System D like the other services. Let's use system control and status to check the status of our Journal system. It's system D, journal D. And we can see that it's uploaded, active running. So there is a companion for the damen. And that is journal control. So if you type journalctl and hit enter. What you're going to get is you're going to get the top of the journal from the beginning. And then you can use the space bar to go through. And you'll see all of the logging there. I'm gonna hit Q to exit here. If you want to get the current stuff first then what you can use is dash R for reverse order. And you will get the most current stuff at the…

Contents