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

[Matthias Hanft]

Alan Mackenzie wrote:
>
> Do I actually need to configure the name of a log file in
> /etc/conf.d/syslog-ng?  The Gentoo installation guide didn't mention, or
> even hint at, such being necessary.

The names of the log files (and much more) are configured in
/etc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf - since I have some special
configuration there, I don't know if /var/log/syslog is the
default, but /var/log/messages is a good guess, too.

And (from what I have heard) if you use systemd instead of
openrc, there are no syslog files at all - you have to export
them (from some binary database) manually to some human-
readable format. But I don't know much about that - never
used systemd on any Gentoo Linux yet.

-Matt