

“~Library/Logs” is your current Mac user account’s user-specific application log folder, “/Library/Logs” is the system-wide application log folder, and “/var/log” generally contains logs for low-level system services. The search bar works to filter these log files, too.

To view the system log file, click “system.log.” To browse different application-specific logs, look through the other folders here.

An application’s developer may need this information to fix a crash that occurs on your Mac, too. Once an SSH server receives a public key from a user and considers the key trustworthy, the server marks the key as authorized in its authorizedkeys file. Anyone with a copy of the public key can encrypt data which can then only be read by the person who holds the corresponding private key. If you need more information about why an application crashes on your system, you may be able to find it here. A public key that is copied to the SSH server (s). Click them to view them in the Info pane. You’ll see a variety of logs with file extensions like. To see application crash and freeze logs, click either “System Reports” for system applications or “User Reports” for user applications. You can also use the search box to search for a type of error message you want to see. You can click “Errors and Faults” in the toolbar to see only error messages, if you like. By default, you’ll see a list of console messages from your current Mac.
