NET 4000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10.1.2: Cron, Circular Buffer, Runlevel
Document Summary
The system writes messages generated during the boot process to either the boot. log or boot. msg file depending on the distribution. Login failures for user accounts are listed in either the faillog or btmp file depending on the distribution. Depending on the distribution, the system stores log entries for the host firewall. The lastlog file holds information about the last time each user logged in. The maillog file contains reports on mail server status and messages related to incoming and outgoing mail. The messages file is the default file for storing system messages. This file may include copies of messages that appear on the console, internal kernel messages, and messages sent by networking programs. The messages file is only used on older linux distributions based on the init daemon. The warn file displays warning messages from many processes by default.
