Syslog is system messaging feature which takes system activities and events which can be helpful for an administrator to maintain the system and for troubleshooting tasks. Daemon : Syslogd Database Files: /etc/syslog.conf : This file contains two different fields. a). Selector b). Action a. Selector: It specifies that at which event system report is to be generated. It is sub-divided into two parts: 1. Facility : It specifies report generation based on activities in regards to user process,mail-system ,authorisation process,daemons, scheduler facilities etc. 2. Level : It defines importance of message system task.There are various levels such as Emerg for panic conditions , Crit for critic...
Crash Dump : When an operating system or system hardware has an error (fatal) system generates crash dump. Core Dump : When any user process or application has an error system generates core dump. Note: When an operating system crashes, the save core command runs automatically during the first boot. This command retrieves the crash dump from the dump device [by default partition] and then writes crash dump to the file at the following location i-e /var/crash/hostname/file Crash Dump saves Kernel core information in the below mentioned file i-e /var/crash/hostname/vmcore.x and it saves name list information along with symbolic information in the below file i-e /var/crash/hostname/unix.x Note: Within the crash dump directory file named as "Bounds" is created automatically when dumping happens for the first time. This file holds a number that is used as suffix for the next dump to be set.This dump is used by root administrator for system problem...