gnome-shell and syslog problems

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Sun, 2013-05-05 at 17:05 -0700, Joe Zeff wrote: 
> On 05/05/2013 04:45 PM, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> > When I tried to troubleshoot that problem, I discovered
> > that /var/log/messages* and some other files were empty.  It turns out
> > that syslogd was dead.  I've found that it simply doesn't start on boot,
> > but it starts fine when I start it by hand.  dmesg and boot.log appear
> > normal AFAICT, though there is nothing in them related to syslog.
> 
> Try this as root:
> 
> systemctl enable syslog.service
> 
> I'm guessing that it either got disabled, or wasn't enabled in the first 
> place.  In fact, I'm not sure, but I think it's not enabled by default, 
> but my memory could easily be wrong.

Yes, I got that part, thanks.  No clue why it was disabled.

> 

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Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences
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