In this article I want to visit a “not used enough” Linux tool called logger. As with managing any system, you want to accurately annotate historical events and adding entries into the system log file is a great way to accomplish this. You can view the system log file with this command: awalding@aw-vb:~$ cat /var/log/syslog […]
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Whenever we teach our Hands-On courses, we always have a section of the course that discusses troubleshooting the network or technology the class is learning. A key part of troubleshooting any network is knowing the technology, no argument. But even the masters of technologies like Multicasting, or IP Networking, or MPLS, still can benefit from
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You can use the service timestamps command to create timestamps on the router’s log files. Since version 11.3, the Cisco IOS has enabled certain timestamps by default, so most of us have this on. However, there are additional timestamps options that you can enable as well as places where timestamps are probably off by default.
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