Does linux have a system wide log?

[Mario Vukelic]

On Sat, 2006-11-11 at 14:44 +0100, Magnus Runesson wrote:
> Check out the man-panges
> for syslog. 

To the OP: in addition to Magnus's recommendation, you should also learn
the basics of the grep and tail commands to make the most of /var/log/*

With grep you can search for specific things, and tail lets you watch
new log entries in realtime. E.g., "tail -f /var/log/messages" scrolls
by the new lines in messages