In this month's column, we will take a more extended look at this very useful tool. This attitude undoubtedly stems from the fact that we never have enough time to do everything that we need to get done. Indeed, we often feel that we have no control over our time. Ironically, in this column, we will look at a facility for controlling time. If we can't control our own time, at least we can control time on the computers that we manage.
Users now have the choice of using several different production-level filesystems.
Last month, we discussed setting up and configuring the syslog facility. This month, we will look at two additional considerations that come into play where syslog is concerned. First, we need a way to manage all the log files that we are creating and insure that they do not consume too much disk space. Second, we will need to have a strategy for processing all of the information and discerning what is most important within it. All of the log files in the world are of little use if no one looks at them.