Re: Debian logging - confused

2014-01-19 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2014-01-15 17:07:17 +0530, Kailash wrote: > /etc/rsyslog.conf defines where the various messages are logged to. > rsyslog.conf has an excellent manpage. No, the rsyslog.conf man page is out of date (last change in October 2012) and very incomplete. For instance it doesn't say anything about the

Re: Debian logging - confused

2014-01-18 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2014-01-16 5:48 PM, Marko Randjelovic wrote: On Wed, 15 Jan 2014 06:14:42 -0500 Tanstaafl wrote: So, does debian have a single log (in gentoo, everything is logged to /var/log/messages, then you can also send individual services to separate logs as well)? The reason I'm asking is, I can't s

Re: Debian logging - confused

2014-01-16 Thread Marko Randjelovic
On Wed, 15 Jan 2014 06:14:42 -0500 Tanstaafl wrote: > Hi all, > > I understand and agree with the argument for having separate logs for > different services, as it makes troubleshooting individual servcies much > easier - in most cases. > > However, I also would like to have *one* log that *e

Re: Debian logging - confused

2014-01-15 Thread Paul Townsend
On 15 Jan 2014, at 11:14, Tanstaafl wrote: > Hi all, > > I understand and agree with the argument for having separate logs for > different services, as it makes troubleshooting individual servcies much > easier - in most cases. > > However, I also would like to have *one* log that *everything

Re: Debian logging - confused

2014-01-15 Thread Raffaele Morelli
2014/1/15 Tanstaafl > Hi all, > > I understand and agree with the argument for having separate logs for > different services, as it makes troubleshooting individual servcies much > easier - in most cases. > > However, I also would like to have *one* log that *everything* goes to, > because in man

Re: Debian logging - confused

2014-01-15 Thread Klaus
On 15/01/14 11:14, Tanstaafl wrote: The reason I'm asking is, I can't seem to find where sshd is logging (I'm having someone remote in and help me with something, but can't find any record of him having been there yesterday)... Login requests are recorded in /var/log/auth.log -- Klaus -- To

Re: Debian logging - confused

2014-01-15 Thread Jeff Bauer
On 01/15/2014 06:14 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: The reason I'm asking is, I can't seem to find where sshd is logging (I'm having someone remote in and help me with something, but can't find any record of him having been there yesterday)... Appreciate any pointers... Pointer: http://bit.ly/19u0D

Re: Debian logging - confused

2014-01-15 Thread Kailash
On Wednesday 15 January 2014 04:44 PM, Tanstaafl wrote: > Hi all, > > I understand and agree with the argument for having separate logs for > different services, as it makes troubleshooting individual servcies much > easier - in most cases. > > However, I also would like to have *one* log that *e