For syslog : apt-get install rsyslog

["C.T.F. Jansen" <frank.jansen@actrix.gen.nz>]

To restore a readable and accessible syslog in Debian 12.0 enter

               apt-get  install rsyslog

One doesn't need to do anything with the journal suite.
I installed rsyslog-doc as well. It is in: 
/usr/share/doc/rsyslog-doc/html

The logs appear to be set up to rotate etc already in: 
/etc/logrotate.conf and                   /etc/logrotate.d/

This seems to restore other logs as well.

To implement and maintain a system there should be a text log which is 
immediately accessible.
The current default logging is unsatisfactory and needs to include a 
text log.
One can easily stop it later. This can be done with rsyslog etc already...

Cheers

CTF Jansen,  frank.jansen@actrix.gen.nz, ZL2TTS