Where are the logs?

wkatastrof · 2013-08-20 01:15:36

Greetings,

Maybe I am missing something here, but where are my logs? I have recently moved from Debian/Ubuntu to Arch, so maybe things are a bit different. Please fill me in!

If I go to /var/log I see the following:

btmp
faillog
lastlog
pacman.log
wtmp
Xorg.0.log.old
cups
journal
old
slim.log
Xorg.0.log

Where are log files such as: dmesg, kern.log, syslog, etc?

I would like to know since I have some error messages when I boot and when I shutdown such as "Root FileSystem mounted read-only!" or on shutdown "Unable to unmount /var !"
I don't think these are good messages and want to remediate them by researching the logs.
Also, my machine will occasionally, totally lock-up and I want to find out why.

Your help is appreciated.

graysky · 2013-08-20 01:18:19

Check journalctl

cfr · 2013-08-20 01:20:02

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Systemd#Journal

Mr.Elendig · 2013-08-20 23:46:12

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4CACB7paLc

wkatastrof · 2013-09-19 03:08:03

Mr.Elendig wrote:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4CACB7paLc

This looks like it will be great, thanks!

b1tH1de0 · 2013-09-19 11:23:50

Many Linux distros have logging policy setup by default for the user but here, since You start with bare bones Linux, many log files will not be available, since the tools responsible for logging to those files are not present.

I.e. syslog/rsyslog logs to /var/log/messages by default, so You need to install it first.

Mr.Elendig · 2013-09-19 13:11:39

b1tH1de0 wrote:

Many Linux distros have logging policy setup by default for the user but here, since You start with bare bones Linux, many log files will not be available, since the tools responsible for logging to those files are not present.
I.e. syslog/rsyslog logs to /var/log/messages by default, so You need to install it first.

Out of the box almost everything on arch logs to journald.

oliver · 2013-09-19 13:24:14

there's also an option in /etc/systemd/journald.conf to send everything to syslog. Might be useful if you're still transitioning

Arch Linux

#1 2013-08-20 01:15:36

Where are the logs?

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