[Manual] /var/log/messages does not exist in Ubuntu

| October 2, 2011 | How To | 1 Comment

Enabling /var/log/messages in Ubuntu

  1. Edit file /etc/rsyslog.d/50-default.conf and uncomment following lines. 
    *.=info;*.=notice;*.=warn;\
    auth,authpriv.none;\
    cron,daemon.none;\
    mail,news.none -/var/log/messages

    daemon.*;mail.*;\
    news.err;\
    *.=debug;*.=info;\
    *.=notice;*.=warn |/dev/xconsole
  2. After that restart rsyslog: 
    sudo restart rsyslog
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  1. lega Reply

    For restart I used:
    sudo systemctl restart rsyslog

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