The log for when the installation is performed is output to syslog. Check the syslog settings file and make sure that the settings are specified so that messages with Error level or higher are to be output. The following figure shows an example of the contents of the settings file when syslogd is used in Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Figure. Example of the contents of the syslogd settings file (in Red Hat Enterprise Linux)
When you collect audit log data, we recommend that you use any of the extended facilities (local0 to local7) as the exclusive output destination for the data. We also recommend that you specify info as the severity level for the extended facility. This example shows how to specify the recommended settings in the /etc/syslog.conf file:
local0.info /usr/local/audlog