Whatever else you do to secure a Linux system, it must have comprehensive, accurate and carefully watched logs. Logs serve several purposes. First, they help us troubleshoot virtually all kinds of ...

The syslog deamon (syslogd) on Unix systems provides message logging for other services so that each service doesn’t have to duplicate the same basic functionality to manage logging for itself. The ...

I'm trying to figure out why I don't see any log data in /var/log/firewall. That's my syslogd destination for kern.warn - the default facility and priority for iptables logging. To test, I've removed ...