Ubuntu
rsyslog package

  1. Bug #794727
  2. Comment #13

Comment 13 for bug 794727

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André Pirard (a.pirard) wrote : Re: Please symlink /var/log/messages to syslog

If you remove /var/log/messages you must also update 13.500.000 Web pages that refer to it.
You just can't tell the general user to constantly scrutinize bug comments and update his rsyslog.conf.
Unless Ubuntu is only for geeks...