On Wednesday 12 July 2017 10:45:35 Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 10:39:06AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Running wheezy yet, fully uptodate. > > > > 1. Did I get stoned (unlikely, don't use the weed) and miss a memo > > telling us that /var/log/messages had been deprecated? I noted this > > morning as I was setting up my usual batch of monitoring tails, that > > its last entry was back in May! > > If you just upgraded from an older release to wheezy, you may not have > rsyslog installed. I observed the same thing, and documented it on > <https://wiki.debian.org/NewInWheezy#Upgrade_issues>.
That was "interesting", synaptic says it is installed, but wouldn't let me install the matching doc file until I had "fix broken packages", this when the broken list was empty. This isn't the first time that has occurred. As for this being a recent install, define recent Greg. :) The install dates from about 6 months after wheezy was declared stable, several years back up the log now. Now I'll go read that doc file. Thanks Greg. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
