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

[Hugo Coolens]

On Mon, 19 Sep 2011, Alex Gabriel wrote:

> 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?
Because the file /var/log/messages doesn't seem to exist on a 
ubuntu-system I get this:

root at tuxedo:/home/coolens# tail -f /var/log/messages
tail: cannot open `/var/log/messages' for reading: No such file or directory
root at tuxedo:/home/coolens#

So I guess, there must be another way to accomplish this in Ubuntu?

regards,
hugo



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> Alex Gabriel
> Dimensia Design Studio
> alexgabriel at dimensiadesign.com
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> 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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