Why is there no syslog?

[corktowner]

Can anyone tell me what I need to do to get syslog and daemon logs running? Seems strange they don't automatically start. On other versions of Linux they are there.

[batvink]

enter the following in terminal:

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sudo equo install app-admin/syslog-ng-3.1.2

and as root:

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rc-update add syslog-ng default

to start the deamon at the default runlevel.
Next time you restart syslog will be there.

[sabayonino]

syslog-ng is already installed on Sabayon

rc-update show | grep syslog

[maulbongo]

Hi there,

Since syslog is in version 3 it is writing the log informations to /var/log/messages and not /var/log/syslog.

greetings maulbongo