[linux-help] Re: Where's messages on Corel/Debian

["Dale W Hodge" <dwh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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> From: linux-help-bounce@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:linux-help-bounce@xxxxxxxxx]On
> Behalf Of Greg House

> That's strange, I told him to look for /var/log/messages and he said it
> wasn't there. In fact, I had him do a find from /var looking for
> it and there
> wasn't a file called messages under there. Guess I should have
> him start at
> /...

They may not use messages, instead dumping everthing to syslog. Or
considering the tweaking Corel did, it could be called something else
altogether...

> Is Corel really based on Debian?

Yes, but they really just didn't 'get it' as Linux distribuition.  They
mucked up much of what they did and violated GPL several times until the
folks at Debian had a nice talk with them.  Corel Linux is a dead
distribution, and can't be easily upgraded to Debian due to the extensive
modifications Corel made.

--dwh

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