On 23/12/13 17:58, Jeremy Visser wrote:
On 23 Dec 2013, at 2:00 pm, Steve Roylance <roylance@corplink.com.au> wrote:
another gotcha for Fed-20 /var/log/messages is no more
"cat /var/log/messages" will now become "journalctl".
As the release notes say, this is because syslogd is no longer installed by default. It’s easy to install yourself if you need the functionality, but for the majority of people journalctl does the same (or better).
Having been alerted to the existence of journalctl I had a look. Maybe because I have syslog still running the messages are only going to the old places, but the man for journalctl implied they would be scraped anyway, but there was little of what I would want to see held by it. I _like_ to use vi and grep to find traces of whatever I was trying to extract from messages.