what did it become the syslog file in fedora

[AlilouLinux]

Hello,
In order to see the errors messages, in the latest versions of Redhat we
edit the file "syslog".
In fedora (FC1 and FC3) when I use the following command "tail -f
/var/log/syslog", the system told me that the file "/var/log/syslog" does'nt
existe.
I can also see the "/var/log/messages" (and dmesg?? and syslog-ng??), but
does Fedora  use another thing to see the log messages (errors)? if it is
the case what does it use?

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Aliloulinux