There’s plenty of surprises to be had when you become a parent, and one of the first is that it’s suddenly your job to record the frequency of your infant’s various bodily functions in exacting detail ...

Hi guys, me again. I fairly recently redid my install of Gentoo on my little server. Now my original install had a really nice logging set up. What it would do is in /var/log it would have all manner ...

When we hear ``black box recorder'' or ``flight recorder'', it's usually in a news-piece where authorities are piecing together the events prior to an aviation accident. For the majority of the time ...

Logs, databases, and caches grow under /var. Learn why Linux admins monitor the /var directory to prevent disk issues and service failures.