It depends on how they've set up syslog. Have a look at /etc/syslog.conf,
and look at the paths.
On this Mandrake box, you have an entry like this:
*.info;mail.none;authpriv.none /var/log/messages
If you can't work it out, try adding an entry like:
*.* /var/log/syslog
That *should* log everything that passes through it, but you'll get a heap
of noise.
Brad.
On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, Dave Fitch wrote:
>
> under corel (ie. debian), where's the messages file??
> it should be in /var/log I would've thought, but it's not.
>
> I had a poke around the usual places and couldn't see it.
> Next idea, when I get home, is a find / -name "messages*".
>
> Dave.
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