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:
# ls /var/log anaconda dnf.rpm.log mail speech-dispatcher Xorg.0.log audit gdm ntpstats sssd Xorg.0.log.old boot.log glusterfs pluto tallylog Xorg.1.log btmp grubby ppp vmware-installer yum.log chrony httpd README vnetlib cups journal samba wpa_supplicant.log dnf.log lastlog sa-update.log wtmp
compared to the F19 /var/log:
# ls /var/log amanda gdm messages-20140420 spooler anaconda glusterfs messages-20140427 spooler-20140406 audit grubby ntpstats spooler-20140413 boot.log httpd pluto spooler-20140420 btmp journal pm-powersave.log spooler-20140427 btmp-20140402 lastlog ppp sssd chrony libvirt prelink tallylog cluster mail samba vbox cron maillog sa-update.log vmware-installer cron-20140406 maillog-20140406 secure vnetlib cron-20140413 maillog-20140413 secure-20140406 wtmp cron-20140420 maillog-20140420 secure-20140413 Xorg.0.log cron-20140427 maillog-20140427 secure-20140420 Xorg.0.log.old cups messages secure-20140427 yum.log dracut.log messages-20140406 speech-dispatcher yum.log-20140217 dracut.log-20130822 messages-20140413 spice-vdagent.log
Notice no messages or maillog and some others that actually contain the log messages in F20 that do exist in F19.
What am I missing on the F20 machine ?
Thanks Chris Kottaridis
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
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
On 04/29/2014 04:56 PM, Chris Kottaridis wrote:
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
You're welcome. It is a change in F20. It is explained here:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/NoDefaultSyslog
- Mike
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Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak