Hello all,
im new here and fairly new to Linux, i have a CentOS class under my belt and a little hands on experience, but i am running into things that i have no clue about all the time.
All of our Linux variants are in AWS (if that matters), this questions is about Ubuntu, but we also have Amazon Linux 2 which i understand is basically RHEL, we have some CENTOS as well and one Debian box, and everything is command line no UI on anything.
So this is Ubuntu version: 16.04.7 LTS
I get an error in AWS that says patching on this box was not successful, but it doesn't give specifics. So I assume this would be in a log somewhere, i did some googleing and found where logs were and there are a lot of them and going through them manually is quite slow, especially when i don't know what im doing.
What log file is normally holding this info, what am i looking for specifically? I am mainly a Windows user (should i admit that here?), so i would have found and fixed it by now with Windows Logs, and im sure there is something just as good here, but I am very new and know I am missing something (a lot of things really). So I need to know what log holds this info, and what I am looking for regarding failed patches, and something with enough info for me to fix it.
So im on a bit of a learning curve, so if any of you here could help disprove the old adage, and help this old dog learn some new tricks, that would be great.
Thanks All!
im new here and fairly new to Linux, i have a CentOS class under my belt and a little hands on experience, but i am running into things that i have no clue about all the time.
All of our Linux variants are in AWS (if that matters), this questions is about Ubuntu, but we also have Amazon Linux 2 which i understand is basically RHEL, we have some CENTOS as well and one Debian box, and everything is command line no UI on anything.
So this is Ubuntu version: 16.04.7 LTS
I get an error in AWS that says patching on this box was not successful, but it doesn't give specifics. So I assume this would be in a log somewhere, i did some googleing and found where logs were and there are a lot of them and going through them manually is quite slow, especially when i don't know what im doing.
What log file is normally holding this info, what am i looking for specifically? I am mainly a Windows user (should i admit that here?), so i would have found and fixed it by now with Windows Logs, and im sure there is something just as good here, but I am very new and know I am missing something (a lot of things really). So I need to know what log holds this info, and what I am looking for regarding failed patches, and something with enough info for me to fix it.
So im on a bit of a learning curve, so if any of you here could help disprove the old adage, and help this old dog learn some new tricks, that would be great.
Thanks All!