Cannot enable syslog or syslog-ng

Virtualmin
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I’m having trouble trying to get logfiles working with Virtualmin. Syslog and syslog-ng are in the Un-used modules list. As I couldn’t get syslog working, I tried syslog-ng. I get a similar error from Virtualmin - The system logging daemon syslog-ng was not found on your system, or is not the syslog-ng program. Adjust the module configuration to use the correct path.

I have checked the path and it is correct. What can I do to start to resolve the issue?

System details:
Operating system Ubuntu Linux 12.04
Webmin version 1.600
Virtualmin version 3.94.gpl GPL

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Howdy,

Hmm, that’s unusual, logging should be enabled by default on Ubuntu 12.04, and that should work out of the box with Webmin/Virtualmin

Can you verify that in Webmin -> System, that there isn’t an option named “System Logs”? That’s normally where the logging can be viewed and modified.

-Eric