Synchronet v3.20d-Win32 (install) has been released (Mar-2025).

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monitor:syslog [2018/10/14 20:39] – Let's only put syslog-related stuff on the "syslog" page digital manmonitor:syslog [2024/12/16 01:18] (current) – [Monitoring] add a Darwin/macOS example use of 'log' digital man
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 ===== Monitoring ===== ===== Monitoring =====
 The ''syslog'' output of the Synchronet daemon will usually go to a file in your ''/var/log'' directory. You can monitor real-time changes to this file with the ''tail -f'' command. The ''syslog'' output of the Synchronet daemon will usually go to a file in your ''/var/log'' directory. You can monitor real-time changes to this file with the ''tail -f'' command.
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-  $ tail -f /var/log/messages 
-or   
   $ tail -f /var/log/sbbs.log   $ tail -f /var/log/sbbs.log
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 +If you're using **systemd** to start and control ''sbbs'', you can use ''journalctl'' to monitor the log (with colorized log lines) in real-time:
 +  $ journalctl --follow -u sbbs
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 +Another option for systemd systems is to use ''systemctl'' together with ''watch'' to monitor both the service status and log output together in real-time:
 +  $ sudo watch systemctl status sbbs
      
 +An alternative tool to actively monitor log files is the ''lnav'' utility:
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 +  $ sudo lnav /var/log/logfile
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 +On Darwin/macOS, you can use the ''log'' utility to view live or past log messages:
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 +  $ log stream --debug --process sbbs
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 ===== See Also ===== ===== See Also =====
   * [[:monitor:|Monitoring]]   * [[:monitor:|Monitoring]]

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