log?

[Nils Kassube]

Knute Johnson wrote:
> On 10/6/2011 8:42 PM, Knute Johnson wrote:
> > On 10/6/2011 8:38 PM, Nils Kassube wrote:
> >> 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.
> > 
> > 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.
> 
> I found it, it's showing up in /var/log/syslog.  I don't know why I
> didn't see it there before and I still don't know where
> /var/log/user.log went.

I suppose /var/log/user.log like /var/log/messages was removed for the 
same reason - "to reduce log duplication" (comment #8 of the bug report 
mentioned above).


Nils