Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE SERVER 10 - INSTALLATION AND ADMINISTRATION 11-05-2007 Installation Manual page 926

Table 51.1
Log File
/var/log/boot.msg
/var/log/mail.*
/var/log/messages
/var/log/SaX.log
/home/user/
.xsession-errors
/var/log/warn
/var/log/wtmp
/var/log/Xorg.*.log
/var/log/YaST2/
/var/log/samba/
Apart from log files, your machine also supplies you with information about the running
system. See
908 Installation and Administration
Log Files
Table 51.2: System Information.
Description
Messages from the kernel during the boot
process.
Messages from the mail system.
Ongoing messages from the kernel and sys-
tem log daemon when running.
Hardware messages from the SaX display
and KVM system.
Messages from the desktop applications cur-
rently running. Replace user with the actual
username.
All messages from the kernel and system log
daemon assigned WARNING level or higher.
Binary file containing user login records for
the current machine session. View it with
last.
Various start-up and runtime logs from the
X Window system. It is useful for debugging
failed X start-ups.
Directory containing YaST's actions and their
results.
Directory containing Samba server and client
log messages.