Re: Log files: location and description

[Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net>]

On 10/07/2017 03:01 PM, David Wright wrote:
> On Sat 07 Oct 2017 at 09:36:37 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote:
> > [snip]
> >
> > I have a hypothesis, but I need to have facts to back it up.
> > Specifically:
> > 1. During the installation process I need to inventory when and
> >    "as what" various USB devices are recognized. The installation
> >    target is a USB drive and Grub is being installed to its MBR.
>
> It's all in /var/log/installer, specifically syslog.
> partman has the partitioning, and hardware-summary gives
> both that and related software summaries. That's all after
> the event, of course. While the d-i is running, syslog
> is under /var/log as normal.

I didn't find what I wanted.
It is very possible I just didn't recognize it.
Is there a guide for reading them?