On Mon, 09 Feb 2015 11:06:42 +0100, Matthias Hanft 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.
The default is /var/log/messages. > 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. Or just install syslog-ng. systemd's journal doesn't preclude the use of a traditional logger too. -- Neil Bothwick WinErr 003: Dynamic linking error - Your mistake is now in every file
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