Logging not reporting anything to syslog

[Stephen Torri]

On 13 Jan 2002, Jean-Pierre Schwickerath wrote:

> First, you should not answer to a message when you start a new topic, because
> Mail clients using threads don't show it a new thread. 

I thought I started a new one. Oh well.
 
> The messages are getting logged with the kern level, so most of the time, the
> logging ends in /var/log/kern.log
> You should check this.
> And then you may check your /etc/syslog.conf there you will see where the
> kern.warn or kern.* ends. 
> It might be your distribution is configured to log in /var/log/messages just
> what has not been logged in any other logfile.
> 
> Jean-Pierre

I setup /etc/syslog.conf to send any kern messages to the console first 
and then to /var/log/kernel.

Since I had the rules in the firewall for when I query as a DNS client I 
tried "dig www.yahoo.com". No messages appeared at the console and none 
appreared in the log.

Stephen