On Tue, Feb 11, 2020 at 05:14:35PM +0000, John wrote: > 1: Since upgrading from Stretch to Buster the plog command does not > work, showing only pre-Buster output. This is clearly because > /var/log/ppp.log is not being written to. The man page for plog says > that it would be if /etc/syslog.conf has a particular line in it; but > there is no /etc/syslog.conf file. There is a /etc/rsyslog.conf file > with the recommended line in it but it is not working. How do I get > plog and /var/log/ppp.log back? > local2.* -/var/log/ppp.log
First, make sure rsyslog is running. "systemctl status rsyslog" should be a good start. I suspect you'll get some sort of error here, and the next steps will depend on what it is. If it's running, you should be able to test whether this logging rule is working, by sending a log request with that "facility". For example, logger -p local2.info "hello world"
