m: He is on a Raspberry Pi On Sat, Mar 2, 2024 at 9:14 AM matthew wall <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Saturday, March 2, 2024 at 11:57:55 AM UTC-5 Charlie T wrote: > > OK...well that's strange. */var/log/syslog* is NOT updating. Even with > a "chmod 777 syslog"...still no updates to syslog. > > > in general, redhat systems use /var/log/messages, debian systems use > /var/log/syslog > > systems that use systemd might swallow some or all of the system logging > into systemd-journald, leaving you with nothing in /var/log/syslog or > /var/log/messages. if you are on one of those systems, then you'll have to > use journalctl to view the log messages. > > if you want to see the contents of /var/log/messages or /var/log/syslog > without having to escalate privileges, you should change the permissions in > the rsyslog configuration (/etc/rsyslog.conf) and/or logrotate > configuration. i do not recall whether this is possible on systemd systems > that have hijacked *all* of the system logging into journald. > > your 'chmod 777' will go away at the next log rotation and/or rsyslog > restart, and you really don't want to give world write privileges on system > files like that anyway. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "weewx-user" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/d35daf5a-9027-4eed-8957-03b153554bd9n%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/d35daf5a-9027-4eed-8957-03b153554bd9n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/CAPq0zEBxNwbsWAHSf1XYhWzSwpFy8id_g17kCuXbdSMz4mn_aw%40mail.gmail.com.
