Log files. They're there for a reason -- to keep track of what goes on behind the velvet curtain of your operating system. When things go wrong, entries are added to those log files, so you can view ...

Failed logins can be legitimate human error or attempts to hack your Linux system, but either way they might flag something that warrants attention. Repeated failed ...

This easy. Just type logger on the command line and your message will be added to the end of the /var/log/syslog file. $ logger comment to be added to log $ tail -1 /vvar/log/syslog May 21 18:02:16 ...

I've successfully joined the system to my AD domain. wbinfo works, getent works, but trying to login to the server via ssh with my AD account(or even to see a samba share) fails.<BR><BR>I've ...

Hi,<BR><BR>Noticed that sshd entries are showing up twice in /var/log/secure:<BR><BR>Nov 20 02:48:23 boxen sshd[5435]: Failed password for root from 218.247.185.242 port 56161 ssh2<BR>Nov 20 10:48:23 ...