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From: Rich Freeman <rich0@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] I don't seem to have a system log. Help, please!
Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2015 10:02:46 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAGfcS_mXoSRH-WVv4vYgH=Kspz+td=aAkMdEXOG1pNf0+UDPTg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <30642.1423492011@ccs.covici.com>

On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 9:26 AM,  <covici@ccs.covici.com> wrote:
>
> I wonder if the original poster is using systemd?

He already said he isn't.  He just was looking for the wrong filename.

> Also, I find journalctl very clumsy to find things about a specific
> program, such as mail logs or whatever -- unless I am missing
> something.

Well, the journal only contains stuff sent to it.  So, if apache dumps
some stuff to stdout or to /dev/log or whatever then it will be in the
journal.  If apache dumps its logs directly to a file in
/var/log/apache then the journal won't contain it.  Many files in
/var/log were not created by syslog-ng, and this would not show up in
the journal.

>  I use syslog-ng, although I get a lot of messages which say
> forwarding to syslog missed n messages from system journal, so maybe
> its a problem, but how would you use logwatch without something like
> syslog-ng?

You'd need to use a systemd-aware log watcher.

-- 
Rich


  reply	other threads:[~2015-02-09 15:02 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
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 [this message]
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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