Fedora core4 problems

Andy Green andy at warmcat.com
Mon Mar 27 17:26:50 UTC 2006


jim phelps wrote:

> I now notice that boot.log is an empty file? Is this
> normal for FC4. It was there on FC2.
> I checked syslogd and it is running.
> /etc/syslog.conf is present and contains a line
> "local7.*     /var/log/boot.log"
> 
> If I delete the empty boot.log and reboot, a new
> boot.log file is created but remains empty?
> 
> Can someone advise as to how I may get it functioning
> again.

Can it be that nothing is sending out log lines tagged with local7 any 
more?  In FC5 that line is still in /etc/syslog.conf but the file is not 
created.

> Also, when did fedora switch from /mnt/* to /media/* ??
> Why??

I believe its a Linux Standards Base thing.

-Andy
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