Hi, Alan. On Mon, Feb 09, 2015 at 12:19:20PM +0200, 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 Yes. :-) > (it's also constantly tailed on vt12, just in case you need to see > what's going on it right now) I didn't know that. Wow! Is this something relatively new, or has it always been there? > -- > Alan McKinnon > alan.mckin...@gmail.com -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
