Linux Administration Cookbook

How to do it...

Hier manual pages tell us that if we want to find miscellaneous log files, we should start by looking in /var/log/:

       /var/log               Miscellaneous log files.

Navigating to /var/log and listing its contents shows us that this is the case:

$ cd /var/log$ ls -ltotal 156drwxr-xr-x. 2 root   root      219 May 12 18:55 anacondadrwx------. 2 root   root       23 Oct  9 16:55 audit-rw-------. 1 root   root        6 Oct  9 16:55 boot.log-rw-------. 1 root   utmp        0 May 12 18:51 btmpdrwxr-xr-x. 2 chrony chrony      6 Apr 12 17:37 chrony-rw-------. 1 root   root      807 Oct  9 17:01 cron-rw-r--r--. 1 root   root    28601 Oct  9 16:55 dmesg-rw-r--r--. 1 root   root      193 May 12 18:51 grubby_prune_debug-rw-r--r--. 1 root   root   292292 Oct  9 17:21 lastlog-rw-------. 1 root root ...