Re: Fedora 20 no /var/log/messages file

[Chris Kottaridis]

Actually rsyslog is what I needed. Enabled and started it and rebooted 
and now I see messages and mailog.

I don't remember having to do that in F19, but maybe I made slightly 
different installation choices.

Thanks
Chris Kottaridis
On 04/29/2014 03:12 PM, Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak wrote:
> On 04/29/2014 03:59 PM, Chris Kottaridis wrote:
> > I am migrating from a Fedora 19 to a Fedora 20 host. I used the Fedora
> > 20 live disk to install on the new machine. I have most things
> > transferred over and working, but curiously I don't have any messages or
> > mail log files in /var/log as I do in the F19 host:
>
> What does "systemctl status syslog" say?
>
> If you want syslog, you need to enable it.
>
> Otherwise, the new way is to use the journalctl command.
> Mike