Thanks for the response! Now I know.
I wonder if I should submit a bug report for the gentoo printing howto since
it recommends doing tail -f /var/log/messages?
I think I will -- that would be a nice (little) improvement.
-- Stephen
On Thursday 24 July 2003 09:45 am, Florian Huber wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Jul 2003 16:24:51 +0200
>
> Thorsten Kampe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > * Stephen Boulet (2003-07-24 13:50 +0200)
> >
> > > I've emerged metalog according to the directions, but there is no
> > > /var/log/messages.
> > >
> > > Is this normal?
> >
> > Yes
>
> It is indeed ;)
>
> You may look at /var/log/everything/current, which is the
> metalog-equivalent.
> You can symlink it to /var/log/messages (no hardlink!) or install
> another kernel logd.
>
> HTH
> Florian Huber
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Stephen
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