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I have Ubuntu 18.04. I am trying to set up rsyslog service as my default logging server. I messed up configuration and didn't save a copy of the default file before modifying it. I know, stupid. I thought that if I remove the file and re-install rsyslog, default file will get recreated - It didn't. Can someone please suggest what to do in this situation?

Yuri Tsyboukov
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  • Which file exactly did you motify? – nobody Oct 26 '19 at 08:31
  • System configuration files are not removed by default by apt remove - you need purge for that – steeldriver Oct 26 '19 at 13:40
  • rsyslog.conf is the rsyslog configuration file. I wanted to load the default version of it that comes with first install of rsyslog service. I thought that if i remove it (rm -rf /etc/rsyslog.com) and uninstall/reinstall rsyslog, the default rsyslog.conf file would be recreated but it didn't, now I have no way to configure the rsyslog service. – Yuri Tsyboukov Oct 27 '19 at 04:05
  • sudo apt install --reinstall -o Dpkg::Options::=--force-confnew rsyslog – nobody Oct 28 '19 at 15:28

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