cPanel is best and No.1 web hosting control panel for Linux environment, which will help administrator to manage everything without headache. Also read about cPanel/WHM utility Command line scripts which will help you to manage the cPanel on CLI & cPanel/WHM Configuration files location. We know 95% of the log files are located under /var/log directory (and subdirectory) and you can use less, more, cat or tail command to check the logs messages as per your requirement. Log files are first contributor on all the IT environment when we are troubleshooting the issues.
| log file location | Description |
|---|---|
| Cpanel installation logs | /var/log/cpanel-install.log |
| Cpanel Access Logs | /usr/local/cpanel/logs/access_log |
| Cpanel Error Logs | /usr/local/cpanel/logs/error_log |
| Cpanel License Logs | /usr/local/cpanel/logs/license_log |
| Cpanel Login Logs | /usr/local/cpanel/logs/login_log |
| cPHulk Brute Force Logs | /usr/local/cpanel/logs/cphulkd.log |
| Cpanel/WHM Accounting (account creations, deletions, etc) Logs | /var/cpanel/accounting.log |
| Cpanel Bandwidth Logs | /var/cpanel/bandwidth/(account user name) |
| Cpanel/WHM Service monitor Logs | /var/log/chkservd.log |
| Cpanel Stats Daemon Logs | /usr/local/cpanel/logs/stats_log |
| Cpanel backup Logs | /usr/local/cpanel/logs/cpbackup |
| Update (UPCP) Log | /var/cpanel/updatelogs/update-(TIMESTAMP).log |
| cPanel/WHM webalizer/awstats logs | /usr/local/cpanel/logs/stats_log |
| SquirrelMail | /var/cpanel/squirrelmail |
| RoundCube | /var/cpanel/roundcube/log |
| Horde | /var/cpanel/horde/log |
| tailwatchd log | /usr/local/cpanel/logs/tailwatch_log |
| EasyApache Build Logs | /usr/local/cpanel/logs/easy/apache/ |
| Apache Access Logs | /usr/local/apache/logs/access_log |
| Apache Error Logs | /usr/local/apache/logs/error_log |
| Domain Access Logs | /usr/local/apache/domlogs/domain.com |
| Ftp Logs | /var/log/messages /var/log/xferlog (symlinked to /usr/local/apache/domlogs/ftpxferlog) |
| Exim Sent/received | /var/log/exim_mainlog |
| Rejected mail logs | /var/log/exim_rejectlog |
| Unexpected/Fatal Error Log | /var/log/exim_paniclog |
| Courier, Dovecot, SpamAssassin & IMAP | /var/log/maillog |
| Incoming mail queue | /var/spool/exim/input/ |
| Mailman Logs | /usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailmain/logs |
| mysql logs | /val/log/mysqld.log /var/lib/mysql/$(HOSTNAME).err |
| Tomcat Logs | /usr/local/jakarta/tomcat/logs/catalina.err /usr/local/jakarta/tomcat/logs/catalina.out |
| Cron Logs | /var/log/cron |
| ModSecurity Logs | /usr/local/apache/logs/modsec_audit.log /usr/local/apache/logs/modsec_debug_log |
| Named/Bind (DNS) logs | /var/log/messages |
| PostgreSQL database server logs | /var/log/pgsql |
| cPanel/WHM version checking | /usr/local/cpanel/version |
| SSH Logs | /var/log/secure |
