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Subject: [gentoo-user] I don't seem to have a system log.  Help, please!
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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).