In AL2023 the logging system package has changed from AL2. AL2023 doesn't install
rsyslog
by default, so the text based log files such as
/var/log/messages
that were available in AL2 aren't available by default. The
default configuration for AL2023 is systemd-journal
, which can be examined
using journalctl
. Although rsyslog
is an optional package in
AL2023, we recommend the new systemd
based journalctl
interface
and related packages. For more information, see the journalctl
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