Tail logs on 11.04

[glennbtn]

Hi All

I have installed Ubuntu 11.04 over the weekend and wanted to tail the logs whilst doing so stuff. When I browsed to the folder after getting an error trying to tail, I noticed that the messages file does not exist.

Can anyone advise where I am going wrong. Usually use tail -f /var/log/messages

Thanks

Glenn

[Roxoff]

I'm not familiar with the filesystem layout of Ubuntu, but that's the standard place for that file. Are you sure the syslog service is running?

[Irithori]

I believe, ubuntu uses /var/log/syslog, and not /var/log/messages

To verify that, you can look into /etc/syslog.conf or /etc/rsyslog.conf

[dE_logics]

The file is probably not having read permission, try as root -

sudo<command>