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On Mon, 09 Feb 2015 11:06:42 +0100, Matthias Hanft 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, |
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> > or 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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The default is /var/log/messages. |
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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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Or just install syslog-ng. systemd's journal doesn't preclude the use of |
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a traditional logger too. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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