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annoying_daniel

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Registered: 2017-04-08

Posts: 9

Increase general logging on your system?

I want to beef up logging on my machine due to a recent 1-second (semi-graceful) shutdown event. journalctl is really only helpful to a degree...I wish I had the output of my openvpn terminal and see all of the lightdm/pam logs -- including when the system was locked and unlocked. I question things like if there was physical access to the machine or if there was remote access. And then I start questing every AUR app that's been installed and my mind just deteriorates into mush and I can basically no longer function. I also probably messed up my faillog file because I tried sudo'd nanoing it first instead of actually running the command. There's no failed attempts apprently but -a shows a bunch of system-related users all with 1969 dates.

I've figured out some cool things, you can pipe any terminal output for any app into a logfile of your choice using

sudo yourApp -options | tee -a ~/logfile.log

^Using the "append" option there to preserve the log.

As for xscreensaver/PAM events, this is a bit more complicated...is it just a matter of modifying the startup script xscreensaver to something like

xscreensaver -log ~/screensaver.log

...apparently I'm unable to edit the xscreensaver startup option on xfce, so just follow this and restart X and also xscreensaver?

The other option is simply install zeitgeist...I want everything to be local however, don't want "data providers" sending metadata to zeitgeist itself as the wiki claims.

Last edited by annoying_daniel (2017-04-08 13:30:19)

Trilby

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Re: Increase general logging on your system?

And then I start questing every AUR app that's been installed and my mind just deteriorates into mush and I can basically no longer function.

Reading your post allows me to emphathize.  Please try again when your brain isn't mush.

http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

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