F20 System Wide Change: No Default Syslog

Alexey I. Froloff raorn at raorn.name
Wed Jul 17 13:36:02 UTC 2013


On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 03:08:59PM +0200, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
> Then engineer asks to run "tail /var/log/messages".
> Customer says: "I see
>    cannot open ‘/var/log/messages’: No such file or directory
> message".
And this happens every time in, say, Debian.  Great, isn't it?

> Engineer asks to run journalctl.
> Customer says: "I see 'Input/output error' message".
How would /var/log/messages file help in case of a corrupted
filesystem/disk?

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