How to check logs in ubuntu

Goto /var/log diretcory List files and directories date wise descending order ls by date in reverse date order use the -t flag as before but this time with the -r flag which is for ‘reverse’.

This works very well: This will log your cpu load every second and append it to a file uptime.log.You can then import this file into Gnumeric or the OpenOffice spreadsheet to create a nice graph (select ‘separated by spaces’ on import). As Scaine noticed, this won’t be enough to diagnose the problem. So, additionally, run this […]

By default, any email sent by system is sent to root@hostname. So critical server errors, log errors, corn jobs alerts e.t.c all are sent to this default email address. To change it to different appropriate email id, we can do this by two ways. By updating email aliases file: For this example, lets set email to […]

In the fist few line, you will see something like autologin=username change it to the original state of # autologin=dgod. Save the file, and then reboot your machine. Using privileged admin account open up terminal or your favorite text file editor and edit the /etc/gdm3/custom.conf configuration file. Change from:

GNU Wget is a command-line utility for downloading files from the web. With Wget, you can download files using HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP protocols. Wget provides a number of options allowing you to download multiple files, resume downloads, limit the bandwidth, recursive downloads, download in the background, mirror a website and much more. Installing Wget […]