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But nothing is being written to /var/log/syslog also why it is so?

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Lalatendu Mohanty (then4way) said : 		#1

In 11.04 and 11.10 there is no /var/log/messages. Because the required log is already in /var/log/syslog. /var/log/messages was a duplicate of syslog, so they have removed /var/log/messages.

you can create a symbolic link of syslog as messages in case you are habituated with /var/log/messages.

ln -s /var/log/syslog /var/log/messages

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