> Sent: Friday, November 29, 2024 at 3:13 PM
> From: "Roy J. Tellason, Sr." <r...@rtellason.com>
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: where is mail.log
>
> On Thursday 28 November 2024 07:15:48 pm Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 29, 2024 at 08:07:20 +0800, Bitfox wrote:
> > > After I installed postifx by apt, I can't find the path to mail.log.
> > >
> > > the log file in /var/log doesn't exist.
> > >
> > > do you know where is my mail.log now?
> >
> > Install the rsyslog package also. This will give you traditional,
> > human-readable log files in /var/log/.
> >
> > Without that package, all of your logs live in systemd's journal.
> > You should be able to find them there, with some effort, but many
> > people (including me) prefer to have text files in /var/log/.
> >
> >
>
> What's gained by them having changed this? (I wonder that about a lot of
> stuff.)
Because systemd is the init system on most all distributions.
Get used to it.
Debian will need to massively need to change their ways, as the init scripts
are not supported by systemd anymore.
