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Hello, Matthias. |
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On Mon, Feb 09, 2015 at 11:06:42AM +0100, Matthias Hanft wrote: |
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> Alan Mackenzie wrote: |
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> > Do I actually need to configure the name of a log file in |
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> > /etc/conf.d/syslog-ng? The Gentoo installation guide didn't mention, or |
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> > even hint at, such being necessary. |
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> The names of the log files (and much more) are configured in |
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> /etc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf - since I have some special |
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> configuration there, I don't know if /var/log/syslog is the |
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> default, but /var/log/messages is a good guess, too. |
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Yes, I've got a /var/log/messages. I've even looked at it many times in |
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the past. But I didn't know that it was THE system log. Thanks! |
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> And (from what I have heard) if you use systemd instead of |
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> openrc, there are no syslog files at all - you have to export |
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> them (from some binary database) manually to some human- |
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> readable format. But I don't know much about that - never |
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> used systemd on any Gentoo Linux yet. |
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No, I've never used systemd either. It's useful to be able to read |
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/var/log/messages with less, probe it with grep/awk/perl, etc., without |
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having to learn some special purpose script language. |
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> -Matt |
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Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany). |
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