It looks like this bug has a few duplicates and other implications, such
as to logwatch in bug 1010625. So I think the original bug should
remain, since most comments here pertain to that, and it is useful to
keep this bug to help track anything else that has been affected by this
change.
I have
This bug has adversely affected the LogWatch package. Every service
that specifies 'LogFile = messages' in its LogWatch .conf file (there
are 40 of them) is now dead.
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If you remove /var/log/messages you must also update 13.500.000 Web pages that
refer to it.
You just can't tell the general user to constantly scrutinize bug comments and
update his rsyslog.conf.
Unless Ubuntu is only for geeks...
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Trying to configure my pure-ftpd server which relies on messages, and
the log window was empty. I've re-enabled it the way it should be, in
rsyslogv conf. /var/log/messages is an essential part of any unix
distro. What needs to happen is that the distinction between syslog and
messages needs to
Hi Phillip,
While I would be happy to see /var/log/messages return in some form, I
would be cautious about introducing it as a symlink. What happens if
someone has manually re-enabled it through
/etc/rsyslog.d/50-default.conf while at the same time a new symlink
points from /var/log/messages to
