Hi all!
I wasn’t sure where to put this post, so here it goes!
I’m trying to find my var/log/messages file, because I’m trying to learn from study book for LPIC-1. The exercises frequently make reference to var/log/filenames files, but there often don’t exist on my install. I think the author is running an older version and am wondering if the files have been removed. I’m very new to linux and Bash. Any help is greatly appreciated!
syslog (/var/log/messages) is not installed in openSUSE 13.2, this job is done by systemd.
See:
journalctl --help
man systemd
On 2015-04-18 09:36, Sauerland wrote:
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> syslog (/var/log/messages) is not installed in openSUSE 13.2, this job
> is done by systemd.
But you can install it, and have those logs in the traditional way.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 13.1 x86_64 “Bottle” (Minas Tirith))
Woah! Thanks guys! Do either one of you two have an easy substitute that I could find in OPENSuse to manipulate without grenading anything? How difficult would it be to downgrade to the older file structure so I can follow the book verbatim? Again, any help is greatly appreciated. I’m still very new to linux, but already appreciate the BASH vs MS-Dos differences
Just install the syslog package from Yast
On 2015-04-20 14:26, gogalthorp wrote:
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> Just install the syslog package from Yast
Mmm. There are several syslog daemons you can choose from: syslog,
rsyslog, syslog-ng… I’d have a look at the exercise book to find out
which one they use and install the same one.
Otherwise, I prefer rsyslog.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 13.1 x86_64 “Bottle” (Minas Tirith))
Excellent! thanks guys!