log files

[gardenair]

I am using cent os 5. I daily check mt log general log files as
# less /var/log/messages

When I try to view /var/log/boot it show me message


# less /var/log/boot
/var/log/boot: no such file or directory

I even can not see logs of /var/log/apport.log,/var/log/dmesg,/var/log/daemon.log

Kindly guide me how can I access log files of the said services ?

thanks
garden

[khizer]

make sure you are root user. (test it by the command

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"whoami"

). Then run the following command

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ls /var/log/ 

and paste the output here:

[gardenair]

Well I am using root user. Following is the info


[root@my-proxy ~]# ls /var/log

acpid conman.old mail prelink spooler

anaconda.log cron maillog rpmpkgs spooler.1

anaconda.syslog cron.1 maillog.1 rpmpkgs.1 spooler.2

anaconda.xlog cron.2 maillog.2 rpmpkgs.2 squid

audit cups messages samba tallylog

boot.log dmesg messages.1 scrollkeeper.log vbox

boot.log.1 faillog messages.2 secure wtmp

boot.log.2 gdm news secure.1 Xorg.0.log

btmp httpd pm secure.2 Xorg.0.log.old

conman lastlog ppp setroubleshoot yum.log


thanks,
garden

[khizer]

I think you should be able to see the logs by running the following command

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less /var/log/boot.log

Well first you complained that

# less /var/log/boot
/var/log/boot: no such file or directory

It is because there is no file "boot" in the /var/log/ directory


I think you should try again