System log viewer

scott redhowlingwolves at nc.rr.com
Sun Jan 23 23:46:32 UTC 2011


On 1/23/2011 6:30 PM, Ray Parrish wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Where did the system log viewer go in 10.04, I can't find it anywhere?
> 
> Also, I have forgotten the name of the program that takes care of
> scheduling tasks in Linux, and I have a daily backup of my home folder
> going on to another partition which is getting full, and need to stop it.
> 
> Could someone please remind me what the name of the scheduling daemon in
> Linux is?
> 
> I was going to look in the system logs, as it's name is in there
> constantly, but I can't find the damn viewer anywhere???
> 
> Later, Ray Parrish
> 
You're either thinking of atd, cron or anacron as far as scheduling.
With the log viewer, it's under System > Administration. It disappeared
on me one time, but after a log out and back in it was back. Don't know
how or why, but the logs appeared normal.

Scott


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