The Eighth Commandment of system administration    Monday, June 13 2005 @ 05:23 PM EDT Contributed by: glosser It's Monday, that means another installment of the NewsForge system administration guide. We brought you part seven last week. A system log is one of the most effective ways to monitor a server's health and underlying problems. Often before a major hardware or application crash takes place there are indicators of impending disaster within the syslog. As a good and attentive administrator, you should be reviewing your logs on a regular basis, but oftentimes these logs are forgotten due to other duties or important data is lost within pages of white noise telling about normal events. VIII. Thou shalt not lose system logs when a server dies When that impending disaster finally hits and the machine falls dead, it can be handy to have a copy of the log files stored safely somewhere else. Then you can immediately review the logs to see what you're dealing with without having to spend time trying to pull the logs off the server, or worse yet, rebuilding the server without knowing what caused it to crash. The functionality to do this is already built into the Linux kernel, and it is easy to implement. Full tutorial   [ Views: 1521 ]

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