From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] I don't seem to have a system log. Help, please!
Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2015 09:48:18 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150209094818.GA3218@acm.fritz.box> (raw)
Hello, Gentoo!
I've pretty much got my new system up and running. It took me less than
a week (compared with the month it took me when I first installed Gentoo
a few years ago). The most time consuming bit was getting my email
server (qmail) going. I've still got to go through my old
/var/lib/portage/world file, and see which packages I had I still want
installed.
However, I don't seem to have a system log. There is no file named
/var/log/syslog, or anything like it.
I've got syslog-ng installed, and "rc-update show" shows that it is
in runlevel default. Indeed, there exists /var/run/syslog-ng.pid and
/var/run/syslog-ng.ctl. But no /var/log/syslog, if that's what the
logfile is indeed called. (The syslog-ng manpages don't make this
clear.)
Do I actually need to configure the name of a log file in
/etc/conf.d/syslog-ng? The Gentoo installation guide didn't mention, or
even hint at, such being necessary.
Clearly, I'm missing something obvious here. What is it?
Thanks in advance for the help.
--
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
next reply other threads:[~2015-02-09 9:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-02-09 9:48 Alan Mackenzie [this message]
2015-02-09 10:06 ` [gentoo-user] I don't seem to have a system log. Help, please! Matthias Hanft
2015-02-09 10:12 ` Neil Bothwick
2015-02-09 11:23 ` Rich Freeman
2015-02-09 11:49 ` Mick
2015-02-09 11:52 ` Alec Ten Harmsel
2015-02-09 13:02 ` Rich Freeman
2015-02-09 13:43 ` Alec Ten Harmsel
2015-02-09 14:26 ` covici
2015-02-09 15:02 ` Rich Freeman
2015-02-09 15:09 ` covici
2015-02-09 15:10 ` [gentoo-user] alexandra vargas
2015-02-09 11:23 ` [gentoo-user] I don't seem to have a system log. Help, please! Alan Mackenzie
2015-02-09 11:46 ` Neil Bothwick
2015-02-09 10:19 ` Alan McKinnon
2015-02-09 11:26 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-02-09 13:21 ` Matthias Hanft
2015-02-09 11:29 ` Mick
2015-02-09 11:48 ` Neil Bothwick
2015-02-09 11:13 ` Adam Carter
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