* Doug McGarrett <dmcgarrett@optonline.net> [09-08-20 11:14]:
On 9/8/20 4:40 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 08/09/2020 00.08, Doug McGarrett wrote:
On 9/7/20 4:53 PM, Lew Wolfgang wrote:
On 9/7/20 12:49 PM, Doug McGarrett wrote:
If you look at the original post, it was lgrep, which didn't work. Then I ran grep -i etc. having looked up grep in "Linux in a Nutshell" my Linux reference book. But it turns out there actually is an lgrep in the system, and I installed it and ran it with the same result--nada.
I didn't know about lgrep either. It's apparently a grep optimized for looking at logs. We're never to old to learn...
I'm beginning to wonder if this was a fluke, but it happened twice. Now for a couple of days and all kinds of tests, nothing shows up.
Mechanic's curse? That which is looked for is never found.
I'd confirm that the journal is persistent at this point. You wouldn't want evidence collected before a crash to be lost during the subsequent reboot. Or make sure that syslog is running and putting persistent stuff in /var/log/messages.
I did a locate for syslog, and there are a lot of them, all connected in some fashion to other directories, programs, etc. Four under /etc/apparmor.d, all the rest under /usr/something. where something is most often /lib.
What you are locating are the programs, libraries and configuration files that make up syslog, not the log created by it, which all live as files under /var/log/.
If you want to know if syslog is active, you do instead:
systemctl status syslog I guess it's not active: doug@linux1:~> systemctl status syslog Unit syslog.service could not be found. doug@linux1:~>
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