Console app problem after 10.4.10?

Patrick Gallagher patgmac at gmail.com
Sat Jun 23 13:41:07 PDT 2007


On 6/21/07, R.L. Grigg <newslists at autonomy.caltech.edu> wrote:
>
> After applying the 10.4.10 OSX upgrade to a 2xG5 2GHz PPC PowerMac,
> the Console application won't display the console or system log. It
> used to. There is no window displayed, even though under "Window" in
> the menu bar I select console.log, system.log, or "Bring All to
> Front". Theres a file /var/log/system.log but no /var/log/
> console.log. All I did was upgrade to 10.4.10 and it stopped working.


Try repairing disk permissions. Your console.log is located in
/Library/Logs/Console/<uid>/console.log. Your console.log should only be
readable (and writable) by you.


-- 
Patrick Gallagher
Emory College Computing Support


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