Linux system log files are by default set to rotate. Depending on the age or size, a sequence of files moves back a step, the oldest being removed and a new one taking over as the current log file.

Log mining to the rescue. In the single-server days, it was easy to simply grep through a log file or two. But in today’s distributed computing environment, it can be very difficult to trace down ...

IIS 5.0 offers four options to log your Web server activity. You select these from the Active Log Format drop-down list, highlighted in yellow in Figure A.