Hi,
It seems the longer I run Linux, the more binary logs I see. There must be some way to read them.
Can someone clue me in?
Thanks.
Hi,
It seems the longer I run Linux, the more binary logs I see. There must be some way to read them.
Can someone clue me in?
Thanks.
Er... what logs? where are you seeing these?
Depends on the logs. some programs have terminal commands to specifically read the logs they create.
Just some examples in /var/log on Ubuntu Server 12.04:
- atop.log
- btmp.log
- faillog
- lastlog
- wtmp
This is from one box. In different instances there are a different number of binary logs.
In some cases, can't remember what but will post when I get back to it, you wind up with a lot of binary logs. One example I can remember is if you use systemd.
IMO these things have always made the log useless, and I've taken steps to disable the thing that made binary logs. It seems this is becoming the norm though, so I need to figure out how to read them.
You can read wtmp and btmp with commands 'last' and 'lastb' respectively
Similarly, lastlog and faillog have their own display utilities - called 'lastlog' and 'faillog'
I don't know about atop.log
atop.log can be read with atop -r. See atop(1).
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