On Tuesday 27 December 2011 02:13:21 pm Tom Dawson wrote: > Please accept my apologies, Linux semi-n00b here.
I wasn't born in a UNIX shop, either ! ;) > Where might I go to find these log entries, to perhaps investigate my > issues? 'syslog' was mentioned, is this a text logfile, Usually in /var/log will be several text files that are the logs referred to here. > or another > service that needs to be configured? Syslog configuration "standard" is /etc/syslog.conf also a text file. Tells the daemon where to write what. ( to create /var/log/syslog if it doesn't exist, to create /var/log/messages for that class of message, etc. ) A "service" is a windows-ism, so I'm not sure how to interpret that ? The syslog daemon is a standard function of almost all *nix, started from the standard start up scripts for that OS, whichever they might be. ( and a very early start-up so that it can capture boot events ) -- Cowboy http://cowboy.cwf1.com Man 1: Ask me the what the most important thing about telling a good joke is. Man 2: OK, what is the most impo -- Man 1: ______TIMING! _______________________________________________ Rivendell-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev
