I have had a few instances over the past few weeks in which it would be a good thing to have logging enabled:

• I had some image file which was causing my change background menu item on the desktop not to appear;
• This morning, when I switched over from the FM transmitter to bluetooth playing an ogg file, the machine shut down.

I see klogd and sysklogd in the repos from the command line. Has anyone set up or considered setting up logging? I can apt-get install it, and set up a basic syslog.conf, but is there a downside to it? I know these are solid-state drives, but the number of writes have gone up enough that I think that they will last beyond the effective usefulness of the device. And in case I'm wrong, I can place it on the SD card, which is fairly inexpensive to replace.

Anyone have thoughts on this?

Thanks,
--vr

I have syslog installed, only downside I see would be eating up root space, unless you make it log somewhere else.
Not sure about writes, others know more.

Thanks, MohammedAG. I had planned on having only a minimal set of files. Even on my Debian workstation, /var/log is only taking 133MB, and I was planning to write logs to the mmc card, which currently has almost 9GB free.

http://wiki.maemo.org/Documentation/.../maemo5/syslog

Enabling/disabling logging from some apps requires you to change logging level settings in gconf

guys where is the syslog file which shows me my log?
have forgot it.......

It is in /var/log/syslog and /var/log/syslog.old

You mean the one that configures logging? (/etc/syslog.conf) or the log files? (Those default to /var/log, e.g. /var/log/syslog, but it depends on how you have syslog.conf configured.)

How can we do that?

"mount -o bind $TARGETDIR /var/log" ?