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RedHat and CentOS based systems use this log file instead of /var/log/auth.log. It is mainly used to track the usage of authorization systems. It stores all security related messages including authentication failures. It also tracks sudo logins, SSH logins and other errors logged by system security services daemon. How can I use these logs?: Yes and no: Yes, auth.log gets renamed to auth.log.1 No, auth.log.1 is not necessarily smaller than auth.log as it depends on the usage of the machine. E.G.: On my machine: ll /var/log/auth* -rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 209K Nov 30 17:55 /var/log/auth.log -rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 304K Nov 25 17:08 /var/log/auth.log.1 -rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 27K Nov 18 09:20 /var/log/auth.log.2.gz -rw-r----- 1 syslog

Searching is a way to see occurrences in a log file and previous and next events. An alternative is filtering log files. Grep is a very capable tool to filter log files. We will filter for “auth” for all files named auth.log* . We named files auth.log* because old auth.log files are gzipped and have gz extension.

Linux tail Command Tutorial With Examples – POFTUT We will tail auth.log file which provides authentication related logs. Tail command by default prints last 10 lines of the provided file and quit. $ tail /var/log/auth.log. Tail Specify Count Of Lines To Display. In previous example we have not provided any option or parameter to specify the number of lines to display from end of file. So tail A script that analyses the log files /var/log/auth.log