what's the equivalent for Debian /var/log/messages in Ubuntu?

[Alex Gabriel]

Hi Hugo, I've run that command many times on my Kubuntu installation,
and never had any problems.  What is the output of the command when
you run it?

Alex Gabriel
Dimensia Design Studio
alexgabriel at dimensiadesign.com



On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 07:35, Hugo Coolens <coolens at kahosl.be> wrote:
>
> what's the Ubuntu-equivalent command for Debian's
> "tail -f /var/log/messages"
>
> I use this often when attaching new hardware to see what's happening.
> To my surprise Ubuntu doesn't seem to have this file, how can I get the same
> info I got on my Debian-machines using Ubuntu?
>
> regards,
> hugo
>
>
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