/var/log gone ?
scott
redhowlingwolves at nc.rr.com
Wed Oct 20 19:41:51 UTC 2010
On 10/20/2010 05:51 AM, Basil Chupin wrote:
> On 20/10/2010 20:41, scott wrote:
>
>> I have just found the weirdest thing, I can't find any /var/log files.
>> I'm running 10.04.1 and can't quite wrap my head around this problem. I
>> think I've looked at them before, or maybe I got slack and haven't
>> looked since I upgraded to 10.04.1...? Is this truely a problem, or am I
>> looking in the wrong place.
>>
>>
> Have you tried looking in the /var/log directory? :-)
>
> From command line in terminal,
>
> cd /var/log
>
> or in mc (Midnight Commander) select /var/log
>
> or same in nautilus :-) .
>
> Perhaps yo have zapped the /var/log directory by some means and
> therefore cannot find it? As in having some cron setting which wipes
> this directory off the face of the earth?
>
> BC
>
>
It's really a strange thing, indeed. When I wrote this last night,
/var/log didn't show up after cd'ing into /var and ls -la. It didn't
show up under System>Administration either. After I ran a RKHunter and a
Tiger scan, they're back. Hmmmm.
More information about the ubuntu-users
mailing list