[X-Unix] A (seemingly) simple question...

[Michael Burton]

On May 24, 2011, at 4:03 PM, William H. Magill wrote:

> I was working on debugging a problem (not with macports) and discovered something I could not find...
> 
> Where is the "console log" file now?
> 
> The file(s) which "Console.app" reports as "All Messages" and "Console Messages."
> 
> At one time there was an actual file called "console.log," however find does not find it anymore.
> 	(sudo  find . -name \*console.log\* -print )


I think you're probably looking for
	/private/var/log/system.log .

I found that by opening the Console application, then using
	lsof -c Console
to see what files it had open.

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