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<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?><section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" xmlns:ns5="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:ns4="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:ns3="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:ns2="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:ns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" xml:id="logdrake" version="5.0">
  <info>
    <title xml:id="logdrake-ti1">View and search system logs</title>

    <subtitle>logdrake</subtitle>
  </info>

  <mediaobject>
    <imageobject>
      <imagedata revision="1" align="center" xml:id="logdrake-im1" format="PNG" fileref="logdrake.png"/>
    </imageobject>
  </mediaobject>

  <para>This tool<footnote>
      <para>You can start this tool from the command line, by typing <emphasis role="bold">logdrake</emphasis> as root.</para>
    </footnote> is found in the Mageia Control Center System tab, labelled
  "<guilabel>View and search system logs</guilabel>".</para>

  <para/>

  <section>
    <title>To do a search in the logs</title>

    <para>First, enter the key string you want to look for in the <emphasis role="bold">Matching</emphasis> field and/or the key string you want to
    <emphasis>do not</emphasis> wish to see amongst the answers in the field
    <emphasis role="bold">but not matching</emphasis>. Then select the file(s)
    to search in the <guilabel>Choose file</guilabel> field. Optionally, it is
    possible to limit the search to only one day. Select it in the <emphasis role="bold">Calendar</emphasis>, using the little arrows on each side of
    the month and year, and check "<guibutton>Show only for the selected
    day</guibutton>". At last, click on the <guibutton>search</guibutton>
    button to see the results in the window called <guilabel>Content of the
    file</guilabel>. It is possible to save the results in the .txt format by
    clicking on the <emphasis role="bold">Save</emphasis> button.</para>

    <note>
      <para>The <guibutton>Mageia Tools Logs</guibutton> houses the logs from
      the Mageia configuration tools such as the Mageia Control Center tools.
      These logs are updated each time a configuration is modified.</para>
    </note>
  </section>

  <section>
    <title>To configure a mail alert</title>

    <para><guibutton>Mail alert</guibutton> automatically checks the system
    load and the services every hour and if necessary sends an e-mail to the
    configured address.</para>

    <para>To configure this tool, click on the <emphasis role="bold">Mail
    Alert</emphasis> button and then, in the next screen, on the<guibutton>
    Configure the mail alert system</guibutton> drop down button. Here, all
    the running services are displayed and you can choose which ones you want
    to look watch. (See screenshot above).</para>

    <para>The following services can be watched :</para>

    <itemizedlist>
      <listitem>
        <para>Webmin Service</para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>Postfix Mail Server</para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>FTP Server</para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>Apache World Wide Web Server</para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>SSH Server</para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>Samba Server</para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>Xinetd Service</para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>BIND Domain Name Resolve</para>

        <para><mediaobject>
            <imageobject>
              <imagedata fileref="logdrake1.png"/>
            </imageobject>
          </mediaobject></para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>

    <para>In the next screen, select the <guilabel>Load</guilabel> value you
    consider unacceptable. The load represents the demand to a process, a high
    load slows the system down and a very high load may indicate that a
    process has gone out of control. The default value is 3. We recommend
    setting the load value to 3 times the number of processors.</para>

    <para>In the last screen, enter the <guilabel>Email address</guilabel> of
    the person to be warned and the <guilabel>Email server</guilabel> to use
    (local or on the Internet).</para>
  </section>
</section>