Startup script logs location

Question

In Google Cloud Platform's Ubuntu 16.04.1 instance, the output of my startup script was written to /var/log/startupscript.log.

Since they upgraded to 16.04.02 I can't find the logs anymore.

Any idea?

Answer 1

UPDATE from the official documentation:

Startup script output is written to the following log files:

• CentOS and RHEL: /var/log/messages

• Debian: /var/log/daemon.log

• Ubuntu 14.04, 16.04, and 16.10: /var/log/syslog
• SLES 11 and 12: /var/log/messages