On ubuntu this file exists: /var/log/syslog
.
However the same file does not appear on CentOS Distributions. What is the equivalent file on CentOS?
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Sign up to join this communityOn ubuntu this file exists: /var/log/syslog
.
However the same file does not appear on CentOS Distributions. What is the equivalent file on CentOS?
Red Hat family distributions (including CentOS and Fedora) use /var/log/messages
and /var/log/secure
where Debian-family distributions use /var/log/syslog
and /var/log/auth.log
.
Note that in newer Fedora (or RHEL/CentOS 7 if someone has gone out of their way to configure it this way), you may have no traditional syslog daemon running. In that case, the same data can be shown with journalctl
(which defaults to producing text output in the syslog format).
I suggest search for Rsyslog
And fortunately, by default, Rsyslog service is automatically installed and should be running in CentOS/RHEL 7.
You can run this command about its status:
systemctl status rsyslog.service
There are useful information about files locations,its status and reference docs addresses.
In Red Hat Family distributions like CentOS and Fedora... instead of /etc/syslog.conf... it uses /etc/rsyslog.conf