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Hello, Gentoo! |
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I've pretty much got my new system up and running. It took me less than |
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a week (compared with the month it took me when I first installed Gentoo |
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a few years ago). The most time consuming bit was getting my email |
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server (qmail) going. I've still got to go through my old |
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/var/lib/portage/world file, and see which packages I had I still want |
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installed. |
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However, I don't seem to have a system log. There is no file named |
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/var/log/syslog, or anything like it. |
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I've got syslog-ng installed, and "rc-update show" shows that it is |
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in runlevel default. Indeed, there exists /var/run/syslog-ng.pid and |
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/var/run/syslog-ng.ctl. But no /var/log/syslog, if that's what the |
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logfile is indeed called. (The syslog-ng manpages don't make this |
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clear.) |
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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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Clearly, I'm missing something obvious here. What is it? |
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Thanks in advance for the help. |
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Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany). |
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