messages file not seen

[Ric Moore]

On 06/19/2012 03:47 PM, William Scott Lockwood III 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
>

There isn't one there by default. You have to go through some gyrations 
to have it running again. It can work, as I have mine working again. 
Just google for the solution, it's posted all over the place. Ric


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