"log-analysis"

Definition: log-analysis: Analyse system's logs to find out problems Log-analysis will analyse syslog, wtmp and sulog files in the system in order to summarise information found there. It will also apply a number of known expressions in order to extract relevant data it knows of. Log-analysis can be customized and extended with custom configuration files to detect certain events that are system-dependant. From Debian 3.0r0 APT

* Linux/Unix/Computing Glossary