The gnome system log viewer
gnome-system-log
or select System Log from the System Tools submenu of the Applications menu.
GNOME System Log Viewer is a simple utility to display system log files.
The GNOME System Log Viewer was written by Cesar Miquel <[email protected]>.
This manual page was written by Jochen Voss <[email protected]>.
/var/log/messages
The system's main logfile.
/etc/syslog.conf
Configuration file for syslogd. See syslog.conf(5) for exact information.
syslogd(8), sysklogd(8), syslog.conf(5), syslogd-listfiles(8)