diff --git a/docs_src/usersguide/where.md b/docs_src/usersguide/where.md index 881a5c91..55c1465e 100644 --- a/docs_src/usersguide/where.md +++ b/docs_src/usersguide/where.md @@ -67,17 +67,18 @@ documentation. ## Log files In the default configuration, WeeWX logs to the system logger `syslog`. On most -systems, this puts the WeeWX messages into a file, along with other messages -from the system. +systems, this puts the WeeWX messages into the system log file, along with +other messages from the system. If WeeWX was installed from DEB or RPM package, then the WeeWX log messages -still use the `syslog`, but they are saved to files separate from the system's -log messages. +still use the `syslog`, but they are saved to files in the directory +`/var/log/weewx` instead of intermingled with the system messages in the +system log. See the wiki article [WeeWX logging](https://github.com/weewx/weewx/wiki/WeeWX-v4-and-logging) for more information on how to control logging in WeeWX. -This is where to find the system log. +This is where to find the system log: === "Debian" @@ -107,10 +108,6 @@ This is where to find the system log. !!! note On macOS, the log file is likely to contain only severe log messages. -=== "DEB/RPM installation" - - `/var/log/weewx/weewxd.log` - ## Location of executables in a pip install