[Courses] [Networking] Lesson 1

SMichelle parallax at pacbell.net
Wed Mar 19 13:58:11 EST 2003


> i did 'man su'
> 
> it says :
> All attempts, both valid and
>        invalid, are logged to detect abuses of the system.
> 
> Where is it logged ?
> 

On RedHat 7.3 it is logged in /var/log/messages

If (as root) you '#tail /var/log/messages' you'll get the last 10 lines
of the messages log file. A '#tail -100 /var/log/messages' will give you
the last 100 lines of the file.

HTH

SML


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