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Re: [MiNT] syslogd



On Sun, 06 Apr 2008 19:51:28 , Alan Hourihane <alanh@fairlite.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>
> On Sun, 2008-04-06 at 16:22 +0200, Peter Slegg wrote:
> > Since I installed Easymint on the bigger hd a few months ago I
> > have noticed that syslogd is running but /var/log/syslog is
> > empty and not being updated.
>
> What about /var/log/messages, as /var/log/syslog isn't mentioned in your
> syslog.conf ?
>
> Alan.
>

It is timestamped today.

The content of messages doesn't seem to be in date order and the latest
entries are from December.

If it is just down the the config I will have a dabble and add some of the
entries from my old version. I just imagined it would always log something to
syslog.

Peter