Some logs are missing

[Roy Marples]

On 16/02/2020 22:20, Pierre Abbat wrote:
> I recently got zyxomma back up with a new SSD, which contains /var/, /crypt/,
> and /usr/obj/, which were on a failing hard disk. I can again access my
> private Git repos. Mail is being delivered to and sent from the box; I am
> again getting daily run output messages. But there are no mail logs. The /var/
> log directory looks like this:
> 
> drwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel       0 Feb 14 06:25 ConsoleKit
> drwxr-xr-x  1 root  cups        0 Feb 14 06:26 cups
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel     791 Feb 14 06:26 bsdstats
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel     594 Feb 14 06:26 sddm.log
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    2048 Feb 14 06:26 wtmpx
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  131072 Feb 14 06:26 lastlogx
> -rw-------  1 root  wheel     409 Feb 15 04:17 setuid.today
> -rw-------  1 root  wheel     450 Feb 15 04:18 mount.today
> -rw-------  1 root  wheel   55079 Feb 15 04:18 dmesg.yesterday
> -rw-------  1 root  wheel   56237 Feb 16 03:17 dmesg.today
> 
> Where should I look for what's wrong? All of /etc/ is on the old SSD and is
> intact.

If dfly syslog is like NetBSD's then the log file need to be manually created 
with the correct user permissions first.

syslog will never create the log file directly.

Roy