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Re: [SOLVED] Where are my logs?

dummy@example.com (Danielsan) — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 20:06:59 +0000

Thank you guys, it might be a me problem and of course another pebcak; but at least I learned how to revert to the usual log system; that has been one of the reason I moved my kid's laptop from Debian to Devuan; journalctl was pissing me off!

Re: [SOLVED] Where are my logs?

dummy@example.com (rolfie) — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 16:45:20 +0000

All my upgrades on my laptop and in my VMs, I am not missing any logs. Same with a new installation from the released netinstall in a VM. Maybe you used one of the testing editions, and there is something in the back of my mind that rsyslog was missed out on one or two of them.

Re: [SOLVED] Where are my logs?

dummy@example.com (tux_99) — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 16:27:49 +0000

Actually only one of my two Excalibur installations is missing rsyslog, the one that I installed 3-4 months ago from a Devuan testing ISO (and that I checked earlier when I wrote my previous post), the one I installed recently from the Devuan release ISO (netinstall) has rsyslog installed and running (I just checked a minute ago) so I don't see an issue with the release ISOs.

Re: [SOLVED] Where are my logs?

dummy@example.com (Danielsan) — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 15:28:13 +0000

On two computers I have upgraded from Daedalus to Excalibur and I noticed the logs were missing. Logs is not something that I usually messed with, but I don't exclude I could have touched something else that messed up with the logs... 🤷♂️

Re: [SOLVED] Where are my logs?

dummy@example.com (fsmithred) — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 14:37:39 +0000

I'm not seeing that behavior on fresh install of excalibur or upgrade from daedalus to excalibur. syslog and kern.log are there. /var/log/messages has been missing for years. Make sure rsyslog and cron are installed and running.

I did an upgrade from daedalus to excalibur yesterday and the date on /etc/rsyslog.conf is February of 2023. Nobody has edited it.

Re: [SOLVED] Where are my logs?

dummy@example.com (Danielsan) — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 13:44:30 +0000

I found out that moving from Debian Trixie to Devuan Excalibur the package rsyslog is not installed — and I assume that it is probably missing also in a fresh install.
If you upgrade from Daedalus to Excalibur it will modify rsyslog.conf in order to hide: cron.log; kern.log; mail.log; and user.log.

Re: [SOLVED] Where are my logs?

dummy@example.com (tux_99) — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 11:52:02 +0000

Good point, I don't even see syslogd running (it does not appear to even get installed by default).

Can someone with knowledge please clarify?

[SOLVED] Where are my logs?

dummy@example.com (Danielsan) — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 23:13:02 +0000

Hi guys,

How can I restore kern.log; messages.log; syslog; etc.?

I already noticed that were missing in Trixie because of journalctl but it looks like this has affected Devuan as well...

Is there a way to revert this situation and get the usual logs?

Thanks in advance! 🙏