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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Log rotation on Linux systems is more complicated than you might expect. Which log files are rotated, when and how often, whether or not the rotated log files are compressed, and how many instances of ...

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 ...