Log files. They're there for a reason -- to keep track of what goes on behind the velvet curtain of your operating system. When things go wrong, entries are added to those log files, so you can view ...

If you usually keep a known amount of hard-drive space clear, and suddenly find your system running low on space, a problem with the way the system handles log files may be to blame. You can use a ...

Log rotation, a normal thing on Linux systems, keeps any particular log file from becoming too large, yet ensures that sufficient details on system activities are still available for proper system ...

You can accomplish this by using the Combined Log Format rather than the default Common Log Format. In your Apache configuration files, search for the CustomLog keyword, and modify it to look like the ...

The transaction log file contains the SQL Server transactions of the database. It basically records the database transactions and the changes made by the transactions to the database. The logs are ...

DISM is a useful utility. In addition to repairing corrupted system image files, you can also use the DISM tool for other purposes, like installing, uninstalling, updating, and configuring Windows ...

As every server administrator knows, log files are the pulse of a network infrastructure. They tell us what has occurred in an application or service, and if they stop growing, something is wrong. Log ...

Have you ever noticed that an IIS server seems to slowly eat disk space over time? If you’re hosting many sites, or a few high traffic sites, it might not be that slow to consume a big portion of your ...

If you are a Windows 11/10 user, you might have seen the DumpStack.log.tmp file in your C drive. This file is located in the root directory of your Windows computer. However, it is not necessary that ...

Running a DNS-321 on my home network, fun-plugged it and got Vsftpd up and running. I cannot however get it to actually log any activity in the 2 log files I created in /ffp/var/log following this ...

Want to know why your high-value pages aren’t getting indexed? Or why Google keeps crawling useless parameters over and over and over…but not your blog? Your server logs hold the answers. Yes, they’re ...