logger does not write?

[Nic2012]

I am bit confused, I did:

pi@pi64:~$ logger testmessage
pi@pi64:~$ sudo tail -1 /var/log/messages
tail: cannot open '/var/log/messages' for reading: No such file or directory

Is there any action needed before to enable logging systemwide? Best regards, Nic

[bamarni]

Hi, seems like this file doesn't exist anymore, cf. https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/84633/where-is-var-log-messages#answer-84634

[Nic2012]

According to https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/84633/where-is-var-log-messages#answer-84634 but i get the same to syslog, too :(

root@pi64:/home/pi# logger test
root@pi64:/home/pi# tail -1 /var/log/syslog
tail: cannot open '/var/log/syslog' for reading: No such file or directory

[bamarni]

I don't have a setup to check right now, we should have a syslog daemon running right? (I think it's the rsyslog package by default). Could you also check with journalctl -n?

[Nic2012]

I was expecting that such an infrastructure is already installed in y delivery, after installing rsyslog, I receive logs in /var/log/messages and an additional syslog was created, too. Thx for y support.