Re: Couple things questions
On Wednesday 12 July 2017 10:45:35 Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 10:39:06AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > Running wheezy yet, fully uptodate.
> >
> > 1. Did I get stoned (unlikely, don't use the weed) and miss a memo
> > telling us that /var/log/messages had been deprecated? I noted this
> > morning as I was setting up my usual batch of monitoring tails, that
> > its last entry was back in May!
>
> If you just upgraded from an older release to wheezy, you may not have
> rsyslog installed. I observed the same thing, and documented it on
> <https://wiki.debian.org/NewInWheezy#Upgrade_issues>.
That was "interesting", synaptic says it is installed, but wouldn't let
me install the matching doc file until I had "fix broken packages", this
when the broken list was empty. This isn't the first time that has
occurred.
As for this being a recent install, define recent Greg. :) The install
dates from about 6 months after wheezy was declared stable, several
years back up the log now.
Now I'll go read that doc file.
Thanks Greg.
Cheers, Gene Heskett
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