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).
