logview is a graphical, menu-driven viewer that you can use to view and monitor your system logs. Logview comes with a few utilities to help you manage your logs, including a calendar, log monitor and log statistics display. For some of the most common log entries, logview also displays a short description of what the log entry means.
Logview is useful if you are new to system administration because it provides an easier, more user-friendly display of your logs than a text display of the log file. It is also useful for more experienced administrators, as it contains a calendar to help you locate trends and track problems, as well as a monitor to enable you to continuously monitor crucial logs.
Logview is useful only to those who have access to the system log files, which generally requires root access.
Logview is contained in the gnome-utils package, which is part of the GNOME desktop environment. This document describes version 0.2 of logview.
To run logview, assume root status with su, then start logview from the shell prompt with the command: logview. Alternatively, if you are running your X session as root, you can open logview from the Main Menu, Programs, System, System log monitor.
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