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Linux operating system and many applications create special files commonly referred to as "logs" to record their operational events. These system logs or application-specific log files are an essential tool when it comes to understanding and troubleshooting the behavior of the operating system and third-party applications. However, log files are not precisely what you would […]Continue reading... The post How to monitor a log file on Linux with logwatch appeared first on Xmodulo. Related FAQs: How to install and configure Nagios on Linux How to analyze Squid logs with SARG log analyzer on CentOS How to monitor server memory usage with Nagios Remote Plugin Executor (NRPE) How to use logrotate to manage log files in Linux How to monitor and troubleshoot a Linux server using sysdig

Every week, I tally the numbers and listen to the buzz to bring you the best of last week's open source news and stories on Opensource.com, this week October 13 - 17, 2014. read more

It's a busy time of the year for OpenStack, with the Juno release just out the door and planning for the upcoming release Kilo already underway. In celebration of new release and the OpenStack Summit in Paris on November 3-7, Opensource.com is featuring a number of interviews with key speakers at the event. read more

The organizing team of Managua FUDCon 2014, led by the event organizer Neville Cross, is pleased to announce that the Fedora Users and Developers Conference Latin America (FUDCon LATAM) will start on Thursday, October 23.

Fundamental utilities and long-time favourites all go head-to-head as we pick the network manager that offers the complete package

Android 5.0 "Lollipop" won't ship to the public for a couple more weeks, but Google has tossed developers a bone by releasing the final SDK and system images for select Nexus devices ahead of launch.

Fedora is a big project, and it’s hard to keep up with everything that goes on. This series highlights interesting happenings in five different areas every week. It isn’t comprehensive news coverage — just quick summaries with links to each. Here are the five things for October 17th, 2014.

When is a brick not a brick? When nobody cares, says HP HP has announced it will shut down webOS cloud services on January 15th, 2015.…

I was chatting with a Windows-using friend recently, and he wanted to try Linux on one of his older computers. I always like those sorts of conversations, and so I kept chatting, walking him through setting up Unetbootin to create a USB installer and so on and so on. Unfortunately, he wasn't able to get the USB drive to boot.

Have you ever wanted to create a webpage or process user input from a web-based form using Python? These tasks can be accomplished through the use of Python CGI (Common Gateway Interface) scripts with an Apache web server. CGI scripts are called by a web server when a user requests a particular URL or interacts […]Continue reading... The post How to create and use Python CGI scripts appeared first on Xmodulo. Related FAQs: How to enable mod_rewrite in Apache2 on Debian or Ubuntu How to install and configure Cacti on Linux How to set up HTTPS in Apache web Server on CentOS How to harden Apache web server with mod_security and mod_evasive on CentOS How to set up MailScanner, Clam Antivirus and SpamAssassin in CentOS mail server

A startup is prepping a modular “Blocks ” watch that runs Tizen on an Atom-based Intel Edison module, and houses modular components in the watchband links.

In the September 2014 issue, I mentioned my new router, and I got a lot of e-mail messages asking about how well it works. I can say without hesitation it's the nicest router I've ever owned. And, it was less than $100!

On the docker-dev list someone asked about Fedora documentation that described how you add a user to the docker group. The user wanted to allow his users to do a docker search to try to find images that they could use.

Get beautiful views of the sunset using your Raspberry Pi, a Pi camera and a small Python script

LG34UC97 brings stunning QHD resolution and an ultra-wide viewing angle without compromising colour quality

In the following guide, the steps are described in order to secure your server against the recent poodle SSL attack. The tutorial uses an ISPConfig 3 perfect server on Debian 7, but the same steps will work on any other Linux Distribution as well.

The new OpenStack release, dubbed 'Juno,' has lots of fixes, better support for hot upgrades, and now hooks up with Hadoop.

I got a new Raspberry Pi B+ board from Adafruit. Check out my review of it here. The main differences between the B+ and the Raspberry Pi model B are the new model has: read more

Meet Ben Balter. He's a Government Evangelist at GitHub, where he leads the efforts to encourage adoption of open source philosophies, making all levels of government better, one repository at a time.

Very shortly, the Fedora Council will replace the Fedora Project Board as Fedora’s top-level leadership and governance body, with the particular aim of having more engaged and effective whole-project coordination and planning.