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Danielsan

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Registered: 2020-07-14

Posts: 193  

Where are my logs?

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! 🙏

Last edited by Danielsan (Today 01:18:03)

tux_99

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Registered: 2025-06-17

Posts: 41  

Re: Where are my logs?

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?

Danielsan

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Registered: 2020-07-14

Posts: 193  

Re: Where are my logs?

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.

fsmithred

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Registered: 2016-11-25

Posts: 2,752  

Re: Where are my logs?

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.

Danielsan

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Registered: 2020-07-14

Posts: 193  

Re: Where are my logs?

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... 🤷♂️

tux_99

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Registered: 2025-06-17

Posts: 41  

Re: Where are my logs?

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.

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rolfie

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Registered: 2017-11-25

Posts: 1,353  

Re: Where are my logs?

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.