On Monday 09 Feb 2015 10:19:20 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 09/02/2015 11:48, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > 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. > > Gentoo defaults to calling it /var/log/messages > > (it's also constantly tailed on vt12, just in case you need to see > what's going on it right now)
I noticed the same on a recent installation. /var/log/syslog is not created
by default any more, when installing syslog-ng. I haven't looked in the
/etc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf file of the new install to see what's different,
but it used to be that something like this would do the trick:
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destination d_syslog { file("/var/log/syslog"); };
filter f_syslog { not facility(authpriv, mail); }
log { source(src); filter(f_syslog); destination(d_syslog); };
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I am not sure if the format has changed since the last time I looked at it.
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Regards,
Mick
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