Ubuntu 11.10 and system logs

[Bruce Pieterse]

On Mon 17 Oct 2011 16:26:41 SAST, Colin Law wrote:
> On 17 October 2011 15:07, Ioannis Vranos<ioannis.vranos at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> Hi to all,
>>
>> I have installed Ubuntu 11.10, and although I think it is very
>> problematic and not suitable for production machines, I think I should
>> keep an open mind and try keep using it, even until the next release.
>>
>>
>> My question: The log viewer (gnome-system-log) doesn't show any logs
>> by itself, but it is like a graphical view application with which I
>> have to open each log (or whatever other text file), to view it.
>>
>> Is this the expected behaviour, or something isn't working in my installation?
>
> It is a known bug
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-utils/+bug/841085
>
> Colin
>

Ioannis,

It works fine on my side with a fresh install of 11.10 64 Bit. You can 
still open the log files from File > Open but I know what you mean, the 
default list would be great!

So here is the default list on my side:
- Xorg.0.log
- alternatives.log
- auth.log
- boot
- boot.log
- bootstrap.log
- dmesg
- dpkg.log
- fontconfig.log
- jockey.log
- kern.log
- mail.err
- mail.log
- pm-powersave.log
- pycentral.log
- syslog
- udev
- ufw.log

Majority of them should be located under /var/log/. I hope this helps 
for now. :)
-- 
Best of luck,

Bruce