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Does Mac OS X have a system Event Viewer like Windows does ?

Does Mac OS X have a system "Event Viewer" like Windows does ?
To see Application events, system Reboot, logon and logoff ?

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Mac OS X (10.6.4)

Posted on Jul 18, 2010 8:30 AM

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Posted on Jul 18, 2010 8:42 AM

Sounds like you're looking for the Console, though I don't know anything about Windows' Event Viewer, so I don't know how similar this will be. Console lets you view all kinds of logs, so some of the messages may be a bit difficult to understand if you're not a Unix geek.
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Jul 18, 2010 10:10 AM in response to AppleForumAliasName

1 - I notice that earlier events are not present, is there a automatic clean-up after X days setting somewhere ?


There are some periodic scripts that clean up logs:

http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/maintscripts.html#Anchor-The-11481

2 - Is there a "Verbose mode" to get more details, can we set the amount of information being logged ?


Not that I know of... whatever info is logged, you'll see it in the Console.
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Does Mac OS X have a system Event Viewer like Windows does ?

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