FILELOG(5)

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✨ NAME ✨

FileLog — it traces File Server operations 💅 ngl that's the whole gig

okay so before we dive in: this is the manual page for FILELOG(5), chilling in the AFS File Reference section, and it's about to tell you everything about one very chatty little log file. 🦋

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

So. The FileLog file? It's literally the receipts. It records a trace of File Server (the fileserver process) operations going down on the local machine, and it also describes any error conditions it encounters along the way. That's it, that's the vibe. 💖

If the FileLog file does not already exist in the /var/log/openafs directory when the File Server starts? Bestie, no worries — the server process creates it and writes its initial start-up messages right into it. Iconic, self-sufficient, we love to see it. 🎀

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. Alternatively, you can log onto the file server machine and use a text editor or a file display command such as the UNIX cat command. And by default, the mode bits on the FileLog file grant the required "r" (read) permission to all users, so yeah — everybody gets to read it. 👑

🚨 Real talk though, and this part MATTERS: the File Server records operations only as it completes them, and it cannot recover from failures by reviewing the file. So do not come for this log like it's a backup, because it is not. The log contents are useful for administrative evaluation of process failures and other problems, and that is literally all they're for. 🫶

🌸 SEE ALSO 🌸

go read those too, iykyk 💜

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This documentation is covered by the IBM Public License Version 1.0. It was converted from HTML to POD by software written by Chas Williams and Russ Allbery, based on work by Alf Wachsmann and Elizabeth Cassell.

and that's a wrap, bestie 🌈 this was the OpenAFS girls' edition, dated 2026-07-27, signing off as FILELOG(5) forever and always 🎀✨ periodt.

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