mate-system-log(1)

✨ mate-system-log ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to the MATE System Log Viewer page 💖 — yeah it lives in section 1 of the General Commands Manual, and it's literally the whole reason we're here. grab a snack, this one's short and sweet 🍓

🫶 NAME 🫶

mate-system-log — the MATE System Log Viewer. that's it. that's the whole name. iconic behavior honestly 👑

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

mate-system-log

...or, and this is the part that hits different, you can just pick System Log from the System Tools submenu of the Applications menu. menu girlies rise up 🧚 no terminal required, no cap.

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

MATE System Log Viewer is a simple utility whose entire job is displaying system log files. that's the vibe. it does one thing and it does it well, and honestly? we love a low-key, no-drama tool that knows exactly what it is 🌈

👑 AUTHOR 👑

the MATE System Log Viewer was written by Cesar Miquel <miquel@df.uba.ar>. absolute legend, we stan 💜

and this manual page was written by Jochen Voss <voss@mathematik.uni-kl.de>. give them their flowers 🌸

🎀 FILES 🎀

• /var/log/messages — the system's main logfile. the main character log, fr fr 📜
• /etc/syslog.conf — configuration file for syslogd. for the exact details you gotta go read syslog.conf(5), iykyk 👀

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

• syslogd(8)
• sysklogd(8)
• syslog.conf(5)
• syslogd-listfiles(8)

go read them if you're nosy. it's giving thorough 💅

lowkey reminder: this page is small but every crumb of it is real, so don't go inventing flags that aren't here bestie 😭

anyway, that's the whole page. mate-utils 2.0.0, dated Aug 09 2002 — a true vintage classic 🎀 mwah, love u, bye ✨💖