From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8A38138A1A for ; Mon, 9 Feb 2015 09:48:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C1C9BE097B; Mon, 9 Feb 2015 09:48:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.muc.de (colin.muc.de [193.149.48.1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6B8ADE0970 for ; Mon, 9 Feb 2015 09:48:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 78669 invoked by uid 3782); 9 Feb 2015 09:48:49 -0000 Received: from acm.muc.de (pD95186A7.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [217.81.134.167]) by colin.muc.de (tmda-ofmipd) with ESMTP; Mon, 09 Feb 2015 10:48:48 +0100 Received: (qmail 3311 invoked by uid 1000); 9 Feb 2015 09:48:18 -0000 Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2015 09:48:18 +0000 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] I don't seem to have a system log. Help, please! Message-ID: <20150209094818.GA3218@acm.fritz.box> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.22 (2013-10-16) X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/1.1.12 (Macallan) From: Alan Mackenzie X-Primary-Address: acm@muc.de X-Archives-Salt: 1b19dc28-d455-4112-838e-f49698e460a0 X-Archives-Hash: ab17004092d922f62f6f7a1aa0be7e5b 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).