From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: RoundDuck Man Subject: Re: Where's many of the system logs? Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2017 03:19:41 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20170807182204.GB10622@jasmine.lan> <20170808140154.GA16481@jasmine.lan> <87h8xholnq.fsf@elephly.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="001a114b9baa53bb0e05564ce7e9" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51867) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dfLHM-0005fs-Ob for help-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Aug 2017 03:19:46 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dfLHL-0003Rp-Bm for help-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Aug 2017 03:19:44 -0400 Received: from mail-wm0-x22f.google.com ([2a00:1450:400c:c09::22f]:36688) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dfLHL-0003RX-5L for help-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Aug 2017 03:19:43 -0400 Received: by mail-wm0-x22f.google.com with SMTP id t201so24418931wmt.1 for ; Wed, 09 Aug 2017 00:19:43 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87h8xholnq.fsf@elephly.net> List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-guix-bounces+gcggh-help-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Help-Guix" To: Ricardo Wurmus , help-guix@gnu.org --001a114b9baa53bb0e05564ce7e9 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Probably text already, don't answer my "are logs text or binary" question, thank you for answering. On Aug 8, 2017 4:21 PM, "Ricardo Wurmus" wrote: > > RoundDuck Man writes: > > > Let me try again, this time posting to the main list too... > > > > I'm meaning logs like auth.log or syslog. Some logs are in /var/log, bu= t > > many of the major ones, like lastlog, syslog, and auth.log arr missing. > Are > > the logs different in GuixSD like with systemd's journal? > > By default everything (with few exceptions) goes to /var/log/messages. > With additional syslog configuration you could split individual > facilities out to separate log files, but this isn=E2=80=99t done by defa= ult. > > -- > Ricardo > > GPG: BCA6 89B6 3655 3801 C3C6 2150 197A 5888 235F ACAC > https://elephly.net > > --001a114b9baa53bb0e05564ce7e9 Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Probably text already, don't answer my "are logs= text or binary" question, thank you for answering.

On Aug 8, 2017 4:21 PM, "= Ricardo Wurmus" <rekado@eleph= ly.net> wrote:
roundduckman2@= gmail.com> writes:

> Let me try again, this time posting to the main list too...
>
> I'm meaning logs like auth.log or syslog. Some logs are in /var/lo= g, but
> many of the major ones, like lastlog, syslog, and auth.log arr missing= . Are
> the logs different in GuixSD like with systemd's journal?

By default everything (with few exceptions) goes to /var/log/messages.
With additional syslog configuration you could split individual
facilities out to separate log files, but this isn=E2=80=99t done by defaul= t.

--
Ricardo

GPG: BCA6 89B6 3655 3801 C3C6=C2=A0 2150 197A 5888 235F ACAC
https:= //elephly.net

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