Really weird thing happening to my linux box

[Hyperblaze]

Have gentoo install.

Fresh install. Had a boot up problem before which I got resolved with a few kernel tweaks.

Now I'm noticing something I've never seen before.

there is no /var/log/kernel or /var/log/messages

if that wasn't bad....messages I *should* see in /var/log/messages (su and login attempts) are being displayed right on the monitor in real time.

has anyone ever seen that occuring?

edit: I just realized that syslog-ng was not installed. having errors installing it. looking into that

 

[nweaver]

gotta have a logger to create logs...

fyi, ona 2.6.11 (rc3 I think) install the other day, syslong-ng emerged with no issues.