log?

[Nils Kassube]

Knute Johnson wrote:
> I just rebuilt my mail server with a new installation of 11.04 server
> and I'm missing the user.log that I used to get.  I have a script
> that uses the logger command to write messages to the log but it
> doesn't work on the new server.  I must not have some program
> installed that I had before.  Anybody know what it is or what is
> used now?

Which log file do you check? If it is /var/log/messages, this may be the 
explanation - in a recent thread on Kubuntu-users Mark Fraser wrote:

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


Nils