messages file not seen

[Colin Law]

On 19 June 2012 20:47, William Scott Lockwood III <vladinator at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 2:34 PM, Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> On 19 June 2012 09:52, a bv <vbavbalist at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> On a ubuntu box (which uname -a print is given below) i cant see the
>>> /var/log/messages file ? I havent seen this on a linux installation
>>> before so where is the system logging done till now?
>>
>> /var/log/syslog?  Or are those not the messages you are looking for?
>>
>> Colin
>
> Or perhaps /var/log/messages

That is empty for me (and apparently non-existent for the OP).  Ubuntu 12.04.

Colin

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