If you really want to see what's happening beneath the hood of your Linux distribution, you need to use log files.

This guide explains what is Log2ram and how to save or write log files in RAM using Log2ram in Linux operating systems.

I'm using a 32 bit build on a 64 bit host. According to manual page using a log file is for troubleshooting. Maybe in normal operation no log file should be used at all, so just a small note could be ...

Description Attempting to configure nginx to log only to syslog (see configuration below), it still logs the following type of message into the default error.log file on start: ...