From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: <gentoo-user+bounces-161965-garchives=archives.gentoo.org@lists.gentoo.org> Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1B07138A1A for <garchives@archives.gentoo.org>; Mon, 9 Feb 2015 11:24:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 79D83E09FC; Mon, 9 Feb 2015 11:24:26 +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 00B70E09B3 for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Mon, 9 Feb 2015 11:24:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 95957 invoked by uid 3782); 9 Feb 2015 11:24:23 -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 12:24:22 +0100 Received: (qmail 4067 invoked by uid 1000); 9 Feb 2015 11:23:52 -0000 Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2015 11:23:52 +0000 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] I don't seem to have a system log. Help, please! Message-ID: <20150209112352.GB3218@acm.fritz.box> References: <20150209094818.GA3218@acm.fritz.box> <54D886B2.3060302@hanft.de> Precedence: bulk List-Post: <mailto:gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org> List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-user+help@lists.gentoo.org> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+unsubscribe@lists.gentoo.org> List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+subscribe@lists.gentoo.org> List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-user.gentoo.org> 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 In-Reply-To: <54D886B2.3060302@hanft.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.22 (2013-10-16) X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/1.1.12 (Macallan) From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> X-Primary-Address: acm@muc.de X-Archives-Salt: 983056a2-7a95-4429-9e92-b3991b02d7c2 X-Archives-Hash: 65523a1b05b631b34460c35001df9292 Hello, Matthias. On Mon, Feb 09, 2015 at 11:06:42AM +0100, Matthias Hanft wrote: > 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. Yes, I've got a /var/log/messages. I've even looked at it many times in the past. But I didn't know that it was THE system log. Thanks! > 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. No, I've never used systemd either. It's useful to be able to read /var/log/messages with less, probe it with grep/awk/perl, etc., without having to learn some special purpose script language. > -Matt -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).