Re: [gentoo-user] I don't seem to have a system log. Help, please!

Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 9:26 AM,  <covici@××××××××××.com> wrote:
> >
> > I wonder if the original poster is using systemd?
>
> He already said he isn't.  He just was looking for the wrong filename.
>
> > Also, I find journalctl very clumsy to find things about a specific
> > program, such as mail logs or whatever -- unless I am missing
> > something.
>
> Well, the journal only contains stuff sent to it.  So, if apache dumps
> some stuff to stdout or to /dev/log or whatever then it will be in the
> journal.  If apache dumps its logs directly to a file in
> /var/log/apache then the journal won't contain it.  Many files in
> /var/log were not created by syslog-ng, and this would not show up in
> the journal.
>
> >  I use syslog-ng, although I get a lot of messages which say
> > forwarding to syslog missed n messages from system journal, so maybe
> > its a problem, but how would you use logwatch without something like
> > syslog-ng?
>
> You'd need to use a systemd-aware log watcher.

Is there such a thing?

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