MTail replicates the Unix command Tail. Its main purpose is to display and auto-update text documents like log files. That, combined with options to configure alarms and notifications makes it a strong tool for system administrators and webmasters who need to monitor specific log files on a computer system. While it is ideal for log [...]

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How many times have you installed a LAMP server only to find Apache doesn’t seem to want to run right? Or you install a new module only to see Apache try to download pages as file, instead of displaying them on screen? There are a hundred and one thousand things that can go wrong with [...]

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Log Viewer Pro is a portable software program for the Microsoft Windows operating system that is able to load and display log files. Its main benefits are the low memory usage and support for log files with a size of over 4 Gigabytes. There are obviously other features and options which will be discussed in [...]

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Any Linux administrator knows that watching log files is key to troubleshooting problems on a Linux system. In some troubleshooting instances it is necessary to follow more than one log file. For this you will wind up with two terminal windows open which can become a mess (when you already have a number of windows [...]

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If you administer a Linux system or you need to troubleshoot an issue, you know that the Linux /var/log directory can quickly overwhelm you. Where do you look and what are you looking for? What about view on a per-date basis? Not an easy task is it? It can be if you scrap the command [...]

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If you are serious about learning Linux then one aspect you will want to familiarize yourself with is log files. This concept will help you to understand why when you go to a mailing list with a problem and, when someone asks you the contents of a particular log file, you are able to offer [...]

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I must admit that I have not been paying attention to the size of some of the Apache web server log files on my dedicated server. For those that do not know, the Apache logs are the log files of the Apache web server. They log every hit to a website and provide excellent material [...]

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If you regularly work with textfiles you might find the software Txt Collector handy. Txt Collector is basically a text file merger which can be used to merge an unlimited number of text files into one. This can be pretty useful in many ways. You could for instance combine all readme documents of applications that you use into one text file for faster (no more where was that readme again) access or combine log files for better processing.

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