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gnome-utils package

  1. Bug #841085
  2. Comment #2

Comment 2 for bug 841085

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Dylan McCall (dylanmccall) wrote : Re: Log File Viewer empty

I can confirm this behaviour. Looking at /org/gnome/gnome-system-log in dconf-editor, I see there is a logfiles property, which is set to an empty list by default. (The list had a single item to begin with, because I had opened a log file earlier, and clicking the Set to Default button cleared it). The property's description is as follows:
“Specifies a list of log files to open up at startup. A default list is created by reading /etc/syslog.conf.”

The file /etc/syslog.conf does not exist on my system.