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

[Tom Hull <thull@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Koji Hayakawa wrote:
> 
> find / | grep messages
> find / | grep syslog

  find / -name messages -o -name syslog

would be more efficient. If slocate is set up, it will be faster still:

  slocate messages syslog

However, it will produce false hits, which can (mostly) be weeded out
with egrep:

  slocate messages syslog | egrep '/(messages|syslog)$'

> I'm still not good at these two powerful tools, but these will find these
> files, IF Corel linux name these file like other distributions.

But the real answer is to look at:

  /etc/syslog.conf

On my Red Hat system, that has the paths of all sorts of logging files.
If you don't have that, something in the /etc/rc.d tree has to be setting
up where logging occurs. E.g., run:

  fgrep syslogd /etc/rc.d/init.d/*

If you find a command like:

  daemon syslogd -f FILENAME

then use FILENAME instead of /etc/syslog.conf. If you find a command
like:

  daemon syslogd -m 0

Then your system uses the default /etc/syslog.conf.

> > > > My friend has a Corel Linux system and I want to look at
> > something in his
> > > > messages file, but he can't find it. I thought Corel was based on
> > > > Debian, can someone tell me where it keeps the system log file?
> > >
> > > /var/log/messages  /var/log/syslog

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