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    Reviewing Syslog Files: Guided Exercise

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    This document provides instructions for a guided exercise to configure the syslog service on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux system to write log messages with a priority level of warning or higher to a new log file. The steps include logging into the system as the root user, editing the syslog configuration file to redirect matching messages, restarting syslog, using logger to generate a test log message, and verifying that the message appears in the new log file.

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    This document provides instructions for a guided exercise to configure the syslog service on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux system to write log messages with a priority level of warning or higher to a new log file. The steps include logging into the system as the root user, editing the syslog configuration file to redirect matching messages, restarting syslog, using logger to generate a test log message, and verifying that the message appears in the new log file.

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    Chapter 11 | Analyzing and Storing Logs

    Guided Exercise

    Reviewing Syslog Files


    In this exercise, you will reconfigure to write specific log messages to a new file.

    Outcomes
    You should be able to configure the service to write all log messages with the
    priority to the log file.

    Before You Begin


    Log in to as using as the password.

    On , run to start the exercise. This script


    ensures that the environment is setup correctly.

    1. From , open an SSH session to as .

    2. Configure on to log all messages with the priority, or higher, for


    any service into the new log file by adding the
    configuration file .

    2.1. Use the command to switch to the user. Specify as the


    password for the user if asked while running the command.

    2.2. Create the file with the necessary entries to


    redirect all log messages having the priority to
    . You may use the command to create
    the file with the following content.

    This configuration line catches syslog messages with any facility and a or
    above priority level. The service will write the matching messages to the
    file. The wildcard ( ) in the or
    fields of the configuration line indicates any facility or priority.

    2.3. Restart the service.

    RH199-RHEL8.2-en-1-20200928
    Chapter 11 | Analyzing and Storing Logs

    3. Verify that all the log messages with the priority appears in the
    file.

    3.1. Use the command with the option to generate a log message with the
    facility and the priority.

    3.2. Use the command to view the last ten log messages from the
    file and confirm that you see the
    message among the other log messages.

    3.3. Exit both the and users' shells on to return to the


    user's shell on .

    Finish
    On , run to complete this exercise. This script
    ensures that the environment is restored back to the clean state.

    This concludes the guided exercise.

    RH199-RHEL8.2-en-1-20200928

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