BOSLOG(5)

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💖 BOSLOG(5) — the BosLog file, bestie edition 💖

AFS File Reference ✨ literally the group chat receipts of your BOS Server, no cap

🌸 NAME 🌸

BosLog — she traces BOS Server operations 💅 like a little diary nobody asked for but everybody needs

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Okay so the BosLog file is basically the BOS Server's diary 📔 — it records a trace of Basic OverSeer (BOS) Server operations (that's the bosserver process, iykyk) happening on the local machine, and it also spills all the tea about any error conditions it runs into. 😭

If the BosLog file does not already exist in the /var/log/openafs directory when the BOS Server starts, the server process creates it and writes its initial start-up messages into it. She's born ✨ self-made queen 👑

The file is in ASCII format. Administrators listed in the /etc/openafs/server/UserList file can use the bos getlog command to display its contents. Or — plot twist — you can just log onto the server machine and use a text editor or a file display command such as the UNIX cat command. Simple as 🫶

By default, the mode bits on the BosLog file grant the required "r" (read) permission to all users. Everybody gets to read, that's the vibe 🌈

⚠️ Okay important thing bestie: the BOS Server records operations only as it completes them, and it cannot recover from failures by reviewing the file. So don't come for her expecting a comeback arc 💀 The log contents are useful for administrative evaluation of process failures and other problems — that's the whole point, that's the serve 🎀

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

go read those too, they're the supporting cast 🧚

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