Reading Time: 3 minutesLogrotate is designed to ease the administration of systems that generate large numbers of log files. It allows automatic rotation, compression, removal, and mailing of log files. Each log filemay be handled daily, weekly, monthly, or when it grows too large. It prevents logs from growing indefinitely, helps manage disk usage, and keeps log directories…
Reading Time: 4 minutesRsyslog is the default syslog daemon on RHEL 8 and 9, and understanding its configuration is crucial for any system administrator. To check if the rsyslog is running on your system: Rsyslog Basic Architecture and Components Basic Rsyslog Configuration After editing the configuration files, you can run the following command to test the configuration syntax:…
Reading Time: 4 minutesjournald is a component of the systemd suite used in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and other modern Linux distributions. It serves as the system logging service, replacing older logging systems, such as syslog. journald is the systemd journal daemon responsible for collecting and managing log messages from: It stores these logs in a binary…
Reading Time: 4 minutesGetting Started with TuneD on RHEL 8 demonstrates what the TuneD daemon is and how it can be used to optimize system performance. So, what is the TuneD? TuneD is a service/daemon that monitors your system and optimizes the performance under specific workloads. The core of TuneD are “profiles”, which tune your system for different use cases. TuneD is distributed…
Reading Time: 3 minutesUnderstanding the Process Priorities on RHEL 8 illustrates how the system manages process priorities when a program is executed. On a Linux system, when you run a program or command without explicitly setting its priority, it starts with a default nice value of 0. Regardless of whether we’re using Red Hat Enterprise Linux, this concept applies to…
Reading Time: 8 minutesProcess Management on RHEL 8 shows how to handle processes on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. However, the majority of Linux distributions work in the same way. First and foremost: What is a Process? In whatever Linux flavor, a process is any active (running) instance of a program (A process is a running instance of a launched, executable…