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Gentoo-Ed
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 Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 5:43 pm Post subject: [SOLVED] System logger |
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I posted some things and read replies and other threads, often is refered to /var/log/messages. I was wondering why I don't have it. Is this because I installed metalog as systemlogger, or is it something else (maybe because my /var is a seperate partition?
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NeddySeagoon
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| Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 5:50 pm Post subject: |
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Gentoo-Ed,
Whats in your /var/log ?
Maybe you didn't start metalog.
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embobo
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| Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2007 7:37 am Post subject: Re: System logger |
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| Gentoo-Ed wrote: | | I posted some things and read replies and other threads, often is refered to /var/log/messages. I was wondering why I don't have it. Is this because I installed metalog as systemlogger, or is it something else (maybe because my /var is a seperate partition? |
My metalog logs to /var/log/everything/current (among other files). |
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Gentoo-Ed
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| Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 8:25 am Post subject: |
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thanks
I have them too. It says one current and several with datetime names. I'll check in these this afternoon. I think these are the ones. |
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| Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 8:30 pm Post subject: |
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Gentoo-Ed,
The gzipped files are rotated logs. Logs get rotated based on size or age or both and old rotated logs get deleted.
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| Posted: Fri Feb 23, 2007 7:57 pm Post subject: |
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Somewhat related - I want to verify a tar, and push the verify message to my log.
EDIT: I should be more specific. A cron job I have creates a .tbz2, and I want to push failures to logger, or /var/log/messages - some way of letting me know that it's failed.
How to accomplish this?
TIA!
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