Is there something like windows event viewer in linux platform?

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Published on 2010-05-20T06:15:52Z Indexed on 2010/05/20 6:20 UTC
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I can check all kinds of error info with event viewer,

but I'm not yet aware of there is such utility in linux,

I can only check error logs of a specific application,

or is there such a tool in linux too?

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