A record of computer activity used for statistical purposes as well as backup and recovery. Log files are written by the operating system or other control program for ...

We previously reported that, for some users, Cocktail 3.7 apparently fails to run the Mac OS X standard weekly and monthly maintenance scripts, despite being set to do so. It now appears that Cocktail ...

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 ...

Whether you are a software developer tasked with troubleshooting a live application or a systems administrator performing strident monitoring of your production server, regularly checking the various ...

Log files are like an internet of things (IoT) for IT. Log data is vital for all IT organisations – it tells us everything that has happened in our environment and is a valuable source of information ...

When Microsoft rolls an update for Windows 11/10, the upgrade process creates tons of log files in every step. These log files are useful for analysis if there is any Upgrade problem. While it may not ...

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 ...