On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 10:39:06AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > Running wheezy yet, fully uptodate. > > 1. Did I get stoned (unlikely, don't use the weed) and miss a memo > telling us that /var/log/messages had been deprecated? I noted this > morning as I was setting up my usual batch of monitoring tails, that its > last entry was back in May!
If you just upgraded from an older release to wheezy, you may not have rsyslog installed. I observed the same thing, and documented it on <https://wiki.debian.org/NewInWheezy#Upgrade_issues>.
