How To View and Write To System Log Files on Ubuntu

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Published on Sun, 01 Jul 2012 10:00:54 GMT Indexed on 2012/07/01 15:18 UTC
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Linux logs a large amount of events to the disk, where they’re mostly stored in the /var/log directory in plain text. Most log entries go through the system logging daemon, syslogd, and are written to the system log.

Ubuntu includes a number of ways of viewing these logs, either graphically or from the command-line. You can also write your own log messages to the system log — particularly useful in scripts.

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