Topic: administrating

[Sidney King]

Greetings,
 
   I am seeking advice on administrating an esmith server.

What task should I do on a day to day base administrating a esmith server.

Is there logs that I should be looking at ?

What sould I look at to see how the server is running or if there problem going on in the background.

How about security what should I look for?

Email, proxy, Harddrive space, memmory any of these.


and clear dircection would be very helpful.


Thanks again for all the help

[alejandro]

Keeping a good daily track of /var/log/messages file have helped me to check my system. Everything (even normal or not) seems to be reported there.
Maybe it could be very helpfull having any error repot mailed to administrator mail account, (some errors are reported via mail)
as this file is very large near weekends.(four rotating record files one per week)

There are  more files in /var/log/ that can help you track security isues, connection, proxy usage, printing and everithing....
Hope this help
A.

[Jules]

You could use a useful tool called 'LogCheck'

www.psionic.com

J™

[sidney]

Jules,
 how do you load the logcheck program on e-smith


Thanks