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From: Matthias Hanft <mh@hanft.de>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] I don't seem to have a system log. Help, please!
Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2015 11:06:42 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <54D886B2.3060302@hanft.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150209094818.GA3218@acm.fritz.box>

Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> 
> 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.

The names of the log files (and much more) are configured in
/etc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf - since I have some special
configuration there, I don't know if /var/log/syslog is the
default, but /var/log/messages is a good guess, too.

And (from what I have heard) if you use systemd instead of
openrc, there are no syslog files at all - you have to export
them (from some binary database) manually to some human-
readable format. But I don't know much about that - never
used systemd on any Gentoo Linux yet.

-Matt



  reply	other threads:[~2015-02-09 10:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-02-09  9:48 [gentoo-user] I don't seem to have a system log. Help, please! Alan Mackenzie
2015-02-09 10:06 ` Matthias Hanft [this message]
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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