The Beauty of Logs
I’m not sure how many times I’ve been asked by coworkers, friends, and random people if I know how to fix a problem. The conversation always goes something like: “Hi Bob. I am getting error XYZ when I try to use scp with public keys to copy a VMDK file from one ESX host to another. Can you tell me what I’m doing wrong?” “Hi Joe. It could be one of thousands of things. You might try looking at /var/log/messages or /var/log/secure to see what SSH thinks the problem is.” “Bob, thanks! It was a permission problem for my authorized_hosts file.” Neato. The nice thing about logs is that they often give you information that helps you solve a problem[0]. …