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).
