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

[Eric Crist]

FWIW, logs are typically stored in /var.  This holds true, even on Macs, though with a twist.  If you look at your system root ('/' on a console), you'll note that there exists a symlink to /private/var.  There's a few other similar juicy bits, as well:

lrwxr-xr-x@   1 root    wheel    11B Apr 17  2010 etc -> private/etc
dr-xr-xr-x    2 root    wheel     1B May  2 07:54 home
-rw-r--r--@   1 root    wheel    18M Jan 29 17:18 mach_kernel
dr-xr-xr-x    2 root    wheel     1B May  2 07:54 net
drwxr-xr-x@   6 root    wheel   204B Apr 17  2010 private
drwxr-xr-x@  67 root    wheel   2.2K Mar 23 10:34 sbin
lrwxr-xr-x@   1 root    wheel    11B Apr 17  2010 tmp -> private/tmp
drwxr-xr-x@  14 root    wheel   476B Nov 26 20:19 usr
lrwxr-xr-x@   1 root    wheel    11B Apr 17  2010 var -> private/var

Section 7 of the system manual for hier will shed some light.  (man 7 hier).

Hope this helps.

Eric



On May 24, 2011, at 16:34:24, Michael Burton wrote:

> 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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