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jeezus84
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Location: Canadia
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 Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2005 4:10 pm Post subject: can't find my logs |
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hi.
when I look in /var/log, i don't get very much.
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jeezus84@localhost log $ ls -la /var/log
total 1064
drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 Jan 19 10:56 .
drwxr-xr-x 13 root root 4096 Jan 18 14:27 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root users 33147 Jan 19 10:56 Xorg.0.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root users 33147 Jan 19 10:30 Xorg.0.log.old
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 18 15:11 apache2
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 7 00:29 cups
-rw-rw---- 1 portage portage 229399 Jan 19 10:35 emerge.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 292292 Jan 19 10:56 lastlog
drwxr-x--- 2 mysql mysql 4096 Jan 18 14:37 mysql
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jul 14 2004 news
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 19 09:49 samba
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root utmp 717696 Jan 19 10:59 wtmp
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I need to get at my boot logfile.. and actually having a 'messages' files would be nice.
here is my syslog.conf file:
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# /etc/syslog.conf Configuration file for syslogd.
#
# For more information see syslog.conf(5)
# manpage.
# This is from Debian, we are using it for now
# Daniel Robbins, 5/15/99
#
# First some standard logfiles. Log by facility.
#
auth,authpriv.* /var/log/auth.log
*.*;auth,authpriv.none -/var/log/syslog
#cron.* /var/log/cron.log
daemon.* -/var/log/daemon.log
kern.* -/var/log/kern.log
lpr.* -/var/log/lpr.log
mail.* /var/log/mail.log
user.* -/var/log/user.log
uucp.* -/var/log/uucp.log
local6.debug /var/log/imapd.log
#
# Logging for the mail system. Split it up so that
# it is easy to write scripts to parse these files.
#
mail.info -/var/log/mail.info
mail.warn -/var/log/mail.warn
mail.err /var/log/mail.err
# Logging for INN news system
#
news.crit /var/log/news/news.crit
news.err /var/log/news/news.err
news.notice -/var/log/news/news.notice
#
# Some `catch-all' logfiles.
#
*.=debug;\
auth,authpriv.none;\
news.none;mail.none -/var/log/debug
*.=info;*.=notice;*.=warn;\
auth,authpriv.none;\
cron,daemon.none;\
mail,news.none -/var/log/messages
#
# Emergencies are sent to everybody logged in.
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*.emerg *
#
# I like to have messages displayed on the console, but only on a virtual
# console I usually leave idle.
#
#daemon,mail.*;\
# news.=crit;news.=err;news.=notice;\
# *.=debug;*.=info;\
# *.=notice;*.=warn /dev/tty8
# The named pipe /dev/xconsole is for the `xconsole' utility. To use it,
# you must invoke `xconsole' with the `-file' option:
#
# $ xconsole -file /dev/xconsole [...]
#
# NOTE: adjust the list below, or you'll go crazy if you have a reasonably
# busy site..
#
#daemon.*,mail.*;\
# news.crit;news.err;news.notice;\
# *.=debug;*.=info;\
# *.=notice;*.=warn |/dev/xconsole
local2.* /var/log/ppp.log
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hope you can help. thanks. |
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ichimunki
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Joined: 26 Apr 2003
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| Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2005 5:12 pm Post subject: |
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Are you actually running a logger daemon? If you emerge'd one of the logging tools, did you remember to add it to you runlevel services with rc-update add [logger] default? You can also see some boot information with dmesg.
Just for info: I like metalog, which seems to default to using an "everything" log, which amazingly nice to have at times. |
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jeezus84
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| Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2005 5:21 pm Post subject: |
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it all makes sense now.
thanks.
i went with metalog. |
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