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rsyslog not active - noweare - 06-22-2021 Hello, I am using LL 5.4 I installed syslog-ng which is a well known logging system. After a couple of days I uninstalled it now my system does not log. systemctl status rsyslog.service returns: rsyslog.service - LSB: enhanced syslogd     Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/rsyslog; generated)     Active: active (exited) since Tue 2021-06-22 15:03:42 EDT; 48min ago TriggeredBy: ● syslog.socket       Docs: manystemd-sysv-generator(8)     Process: 2553 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/rsyslog start (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) On my LL4.x laptop rsyslog is running and active the same command returns: Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/rslog.service Acitve: active (running) Main PID: 804 rsyslogd CGroup: /system.slice/ryslog.service                 804 /usr/sbin/rsyslogd -n It looks like in LL 5.4  is using a script from the old init SysV  system and LL 4.x is using the new init systemd system.  Wondering how I can get rsyslog back running again. Thanks Re: rsyslog not active - noweare - 06-22-2021 I found out that rsyslog was not installed even though the status returned something that looked like it was present but just not running. When I installed syslog-ng it must of uninstalled rsyslog as part of its install. After installing rsyslog the system logs started filling again. The rsyslog.conf file allows you to set up a log server that can be the hub of all your networked hosts by communicating through udp or tcp with the clients. I am just happy getting my logs back so I will stop here for now.