NewsForge: The Eighth Commandment of System Administration

“A system log is one of the most effective ways to monitor a
server’s health and underlying problems. Often before a major
hardware or application crash takes place there are indicators of
impending disaster within the syslog. As a good and attentive
administrator, you should be reviewing your logs on a regular
basis, but oftentimes these logs are forgotten due to other duties
or important data is lost within pages of white noise telling about
normal events.

“VIII. Thou shalt not lose system logs when a server
dies…”

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