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

[Mark Fraser]

On Tuesday 20 Sep 2011 16:46:38 Jon Trulson wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Sep 2011, Hugo Coolens wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
> > 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?
> 
>    Try /var/log/syslog, as in:
> 
>    tail -f /var/log/syslog

/var/log/messages has been disabled in Ubuntu 11.04 onwards, 
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/rsyslog/+bug/762505 explains why.

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