System Log Viewer is a graphical user interface to view and monitor system log files. 2003 Sun Microsystems 2000 Judith Samson MATE Documentation Project &legal; Sun MATE Documentation Team Sun Microsystems

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Judith Samson MATE Documentation Project

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Paul Cutler MATE Documentation Team

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Vincent Noel

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&app; Manual V2.5 October 2009 Paul Cutler pcutler@gnome.org MATE Documentation Project &app; Manual V2.4 October 2005 Vincent Noel vincent.noel@gmail.com MATE Documentation Project System Log Viewer Manual V2.3 October 2002 Sun GNOME Documentation Team gdocteam@sun.com MATE Documentation Project System Log Viewer Manual V2.2 August 2002 Sun GNOME Documentation Team gdocteam@sun.com MATE Documentation Project System Log Viewer Manual V2.1 July 2002 Sun GNOME Documentation Team gdocteam@sun.com MATE Documentation Project System Log Viewer Manual V2.0 May 2002 Sun GNOME Documentation Team gdocteam@sun.com MATE Documentation Project Logview Manual 2000 Judith Samson judith@samsonsource.com MATE Documentation Project This manual describes version &appversion; of &app;. System Log Viewer &app; is a graphical, menu-driven viewer that you can use to view and monitor your system logs. &app; comes with a few functions that can help you manage your logs, including a log monitor and log statistics display. &app; is useful if you are new to system administration because it provides an easier, more user-friendly display of your logs than a text display of the log file. It is also useful for more experienced administrators, as it contains a monitor to enable you to continuously monitor crucial logs. &app; is useful only to those who have access to the system log files, which generally requires root access. You can start &app; in the following ways: Applications menu Choose System ToolsLog File Viewer. Command line Type mate-system-log, then press Return. When you start &app;, the following window is displayed.

Shows &app; main window. Contains menubar, display area, scrollbars, and statusbar.

The first time you start &app;, the application displays several log files by default (such as /var/log/messages). Opened logs are listed on the left side of the application window. The log selected in this list is displayed in the main area of the application window. By default, &app; monitors every opened log, and any change appears automatically in the main window. See for more information. To view a log, choose FileOpen. In the Open Log dialog, select the log that you want to open, then click Open. Use the scrollbars to scroll through the log. You can open as many logs as you want. &app; displays one log at a time in the System Log Viewer window. Opened logs are listed on the left side of the application window. The log selected in this list is displayed in the main area of the application window. To display another log already opened in &app;, select it in the log list. Note that &app; also lets you open zipped logs (whole filenames end in ".gz"). To copy one or more log lines to the clipboard, just select the lines in the main area and choose the EditCopy menu option. If you want to copy the entire log to the clipboard, select it entirely using the EditSelect All menu option, then choose EditCopy. To hide the left sidebar, which contains the log list and calendar, just select the ViewSide pane menu option. You can use &app; to monitor logs. By default, all logs opened in &app; are monitored for changes. If new lines are added to a log monitored by &app;, the log name will appear in bold in the log list. If the log is currently displayed in the main area, the new lines will appear automatically at the end of the log and, after five seconds, the log name will turn back to normal in the list. Log information are generally displayed in the status bar, including : Number of lines in the log. Size of the log in bytes. Date the log was last modified. The status bar can be displayed or hidden using the ViewStatusbar option. To close a log, choose FileClose. To exit &app;, choose FileQuit.