Removing traces of unix system is very important issue for offensive security.
That needs to be cleaned a portion of the log files I’ve shared below.

Solaris System Logs
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cat /dev/null > /var/adm/wtmpx
cat /dev/null > /var/adm/utmpx
cat /dev/null > /var/adm/loginlog
cat /dev/null > /var/adm/lastlog
cat /dev/null > /var/adm/sulog
cat /dev/null > /var/adm/messages

Redhat System Logs
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Located in /etc/syslog.conf

Common Linux log files name and usage
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/var/log/message: General message and system related stuff
/var/log/auth.log: Authenication logs
/var/log/kern.log: Kernel logs
/var/log/cron.log: Crond logs (cron job)
/var/log/maillog: Mail server logs
/var/log/qmail/ : Qmail log directory (more files inside this directory)
/var/log/httpd/: Apache access and error logs directory
/var/log/lighttpd: Lighttpd access and error logs directory
/var/log/boot.log : System boot log
/var/log/mysqld.log: MySQL database server log file
/var/log/secure: Authentication log
/var/log/utmp or /var/log/wtmp : Login records file
/var/log/yum.log: Yum log files

Apache Logs
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errorlogs
accesslogs

Shell Logs
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.bash_history

Application Logs
Database Logs

22.03.2010 – izmir