log?

[Knute Johnson]

On 10/6/2011 8:38 PM, Nils Kassube wrote:
> 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
>

I don't have a /var/log/messages file.  When I was running 10.04LTS it 
logged to /var/log/user.log.  I don't have that file either in 11.04. 
I've looked in all the files in /var/log and don't see data from the 
logger command.

Thanks,

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Knute Johnson