\documentclass[10pt,a4paper]{article} % Packages \usepackage{fancyhdr} % For header and footer \usepackage{multicol} % Allows multicols in tables \usepackage{tabularx} % Intelligent column widths \usepackage{tabulary} % Used in header and footer \usepackage{hhline} % Border under tables \usepackage{graphicx} % For images \usepackage{xcolor} % For hex colours %\usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc} % For unicode character support \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} % Without this we get weird character replacements \usepackage{colortbl} % For coloured tables \usepackage{setspace} % For line height \usepackage{lastpage} % Needed for total page number \usepackage{seqsplit} % Splits long words. %\usepackage{opensans} % Can't make this work so far. Shame. Would be lovely. \usepackage[normalem]{ulem} % For underlining links % Most of the following are not required for the majority % of cheat sheets but are needed for some symbol support. \usepackage{amsmath} % Symbols \usepackage{MnSymbol} % Symbols \usepackage{wasysym} % Symbols %\usepackage[english,german,french,spanish,italian]{babel} % Languages % Document Info \author{fenix9158} \pdfinfo{ /Title (syslogd-and-journal.pdf) /Creator (Cheatography) /Author (fenix9158) /Subject (Syslogd \& Journal Cheat Sheet) } % Lengths and widths \addtolength{\textwidth}{6cm} \addtolength{\textheight}{-1cm} \addtolength{\hoffset}{-3cm} \addtolength{\voffset}{-2cm} \setlength{\tabcolsep}{0.2cm} % Space between columns \setlength{\headsep}{-12pt} % Reduce space between header and content \setlength{\headheight}{85pt} % If less, LaTeX automatically increases it \renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0pt} % Remove footer line \renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt} % Remove header line \renewcommand{\seqinsert}{\ifmmode\allowbreak\else\-\fi} % Hyphens in seqsplit % This two commands together give roughly % the right line height in the tables \renewcommand{\arraystretch}{1.3} \onehalfspacing % Commands \newcommand{\SetRowColor}[1]{\noalign{\gdef\RowColorName{#1}}\rowcolor{\RowColorName}} % Shortcut for row colour \newcommand{\mymulticolumn}[3]{\multicolumn{#1}{>{\columncolor{\RowColorName}}#2}{#3}} % For coloured multi-cols \newcolumntype{x}[1]{>{\raggedright}p{#1}} % New column types for ragged-right paragraph columns \newcommand{\tn}{\tabularnewline} % Required as custom column type in use % Font and Colours \definecolor{HeadBackground}{HTML}{333333} \definecolor{FootBackground}{HTML}{666666} \definecolor{TextColor}{HTML}{333333} \definecolor{DarkBackground}{HTML}{2F88A3} \definecolor{LightBackground}{HTML}{F2F7F9} \renewcommand{\familydefault}{\sfdefault} \color{TextColor} % Header and Footer \pagestyle{fancy} \fancyhead{} % Set header to blank \fancyfoot{} % Set footer to blank \fancyhead[L]{ \noindent \begin{multicols}{3} \begin{tabulary}{5.8cm}{C} \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \vspace{-7pt} {\parbox{\dimexpr\textwidth-2\fboxsep\relax}{\noindent \hspace*{-6pt}\includegraphics[width=5.8cm]{/web/www.cheatography.com/public/images/cheatography_logo.pdf}} } \end{tabulary} \columnbreak \begin{tabulary}{11cm}{L} \vspace{-2pt}\large{\bf{\textcolor{DarkBackground}{\textrm{Syslogd \& Journal Cheat Sheet}}}} \\ \normalsize{by \textcolor{DarkBackground}{fenix9158} via \textcolor{DarkBackground}{\uline{cheatography.com/182055/cs/37859/}}} \end{tabulary} \end{multicols}} \fancyfoot[L]{ \footnotesize \noindent \begin{multicols}{3} \begin{tabulary}{5.8cm}{LL} \SetRowColor{FootBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{p{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Cheatographer}} \\ \vspace{-2pt}fenix9158 \\ \uline{cheatography.com/fenix9158} \\ \end{tabulary} \vfill \columnbreak \begin{tabulary}{5.8cm}{L} \SetRowColor{FootBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{p{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Cheat Sheet}} \\ \vspace{-2pt}Not Yet Published.\\ Updated 12th November, 2023.\\ Page {\thepage} of \pageref{LastPage}. \end{tabulary} \vfill \columnbreak \begin{tabulary}{5.8cm}{L} \SetRowColor{FootBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{p{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Sponsor}} \\ \SetRowColor{white} \vspace{-5pt} %\includegraphics[width=48px,height=48px]{dave.jpeg} Measure your website readability!\\ www.readability-score.com \end{tabulary} \end{multicols}} \begin{document} \raggedright \raggedcolumns % Set font size to small. Switch to any value % from this page to resize cheat sheet text: % www.emerson.emory.edu/services/latex/latex_169.html \footnotesize % Small font. \begin{multicols*}{2} \begin{tabularx}{8.4cm}{x{3.36 cm} x{4.64 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{8.4cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Commands}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} journalctl & Shows more detailed information from the journal. \tn % Row Count 3 (+ 3) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} tail -f \textless{}logfile\textgreater{} & Shows in real time which lines are added to the log file. \tn % Row Count 6 (+ 3) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} systemctl status \textless{}unit\textgreater{} & Show a short overview of the last significant events that have been logged by Systemd units through journald. \tn % Row Count 11 (+ 5) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} logger & Enables users to write messages to rsyslog from the command line or a script \tn % Row Count 15 (+ 4) % Row 4 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} journalctl -{}-since {[}-{}-until{]} & to show all messages that have been written since given date (and up to, if provided) \tn % Row Count 19 (+ 4) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{8.4cm}{x{2.72 cm} x{5.28 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{8.4cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Definitions}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Facility & Specifies a category of information that is logged. rsyslogd uses a fixed list of facilities, which cannot be extended. This is because of backward compatibility with the legacy syslog service. \tn % Row Count 8 (+ 8) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} Priority & Used to define the severity of the message that needs to be logged. When you specify a priority, by default all messages with that priority and all higher priorities are logged. This is a fixed list. \tn % Row Count 16 (+ 8) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Destination & Defines where the message should be written. Typical destinations are files, but rsyslog modules can be used as a destination as well, to allow further processing through a rsyslogd module. \tn % Row Count 24 (+ 8) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} local0 through local7 & If services that do not have their own rsyslogd facility need to write log messages to a specific log file anyway, these services can be configured. \tn % Row Count 30 (+ 6) \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \vfill \columnbreak \begin{tabularx}{8.4cm}{x{2.72 cm} x{5.28 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{8.4cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Definitions (cont)}} \tn % Row 4 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} /run & This directory is used for current process status information only, which means that the journal is cleared when the system reboots. \tn % Row Count 6 (+ 6) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{8.4cm}{x{1.84 cm} x{6.16 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{8.4cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{journald}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} journald & provides an advanced log management system. journald collects messages from the kernel, the entire boot procedure, and services and writes these messages to an event journal. \tn % Row Count 6 (+ 6) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} \seqsplit{Implemented:} & which is implemented by the systemd-journald daemon \tn % Row Count 8 (+ 2) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Format: & Binary \tn % Row Count 9 (+ 1) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} \seqsplit{Retention:} & Non-persistent; however, forwarded to rsyslogd \tn % Row Count 11 (+ 2) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{8.4cm}{x{3.04 cm} x{4.96 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{8.4cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Tips \& Configuration}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Logger & Services and users can write directly to log files themselves or through rsyslogd. \tn % Row Count 4 (+ 4) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} \seqsplit{/etc/rsyslog.conf} & You can configure the rsyslogd service through here. \tn % Row Count 7 (+ 3) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \seqsplit{/etc/sysconfig/rsyslog} & If specific options need to be passed to the rsyslogd service on startup, you can do this by using this file. \tn % Row Count 12 (+ 5) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} (-) Buffered logging & Begin destinations with hyphens caused to have the log messages will not be immediately committed to the file but instead will be buffered to make writes more efficient. \tn % Row Count 20 (+ 8) % Row 4 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \seqsplit{/etc/logrotate.conf} & The default settings for log rotation are kept in here. \tn % Row Count 23 (+ 3) % Row 5 \SetRowColor{white} \seqsplit{/etc/logrotate.d} & Specific logging configurations are placed here and override default configurations. \tn % Row Count 27 (+ 4) % Row 6 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \seqsplit{/var/log/journal} & Create to make the journal persistent between system restarts. \tn % Row Count 30 (+ 3) \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \vfill \columnbreak \begin{tabularx}{8.4cm}{x{3.04 cm} x{4.96 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{8.4cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Tips \& Configuration (cont)}} \tn % Row 7 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \seqsplit{/etc/systemd/journal}.conf & Storing the journal permanently requires setting the Storage=auto parameter. \tn % Row Count 4 (+ 4) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} % That's all folks \end{multicols*} \end{document}