List, Just in case anyone else is interested. My problem stemmed from the fact that I must have chosen "LOW" as my security level, instead of "MEDIUM". On msec level 3 or greater the syslog messages are written to /dev/tty12 by default. So to solve my problem of the missing messages, I just ran `msec 3` in a console as root. Afterward I was able then to figure out that the real fix was adding the line `*.* /dev/tty12` to the end of my /etc/syslog.conf file. This is what redirects all "*.*" syslog messages to /dev/tty12.
Thanks, Jim
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