Ubuntu Server 11.x / missing log-files (messages,daemon)

[Tim Edwards]

On Thu, Feb 23, 2012, at 03:06 PM, franz.reitinger wrote:
> Hi,
> after upgrading from Ubuntu 10 to 11 several log-files like 
> messages.log or daemon.log have disappeared 'smoothly'.
> 
> Asking Google I learned that some logger are no long supported and some 
> additional configuration has to be done in 
> /etc/rsyslog.d/50-default.conf. After enabling the 'daemon.log' I 
> restarted the log-service to see why the openvpn-server is not working. 
> In the former Ubuntu-version (10) openvpn (and other daemons) wrote its 
> logging to the daemon.log. Even tough I enabled the daemon logging 
> openvpn still refuses to log. Generally it remains the questions where 
> the log output of all the daemons can be found (syslog?). How can I 
> 'persuade' daemons like openvpn to use now the rsyslog?

I'm not sure about daemon.log but IIRC openvpn logs into /var/log/syslog
(but I can't check this for sure as I'm not at my home PC). If you're
still not getting anything from it I'd check the verbosity setting in
your openvpn.conf file (see the verb parameter in man openvpn). 

Tim