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NewsForge | The Eighth Commandment of system administration
A system log is one of the most effective ways to monitor a server’s health and underlying problems. Often before a major hardware or application crash takes place there are indicators of impending disaster within the syslog. As a good and attentive administrator, you should be reviewing your logs on a regular basis, but oftentimes these logs are forgotten due to other duties or important data is lost within pages of white noise telling about normal events.
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VIII. Thou shalt not lose system logs when a server dies
