Well, tonight, while trying to track down a firewall (I think) problem, I noticed that my messages log file, as well as all the other logs in /var/log/ were not being written, and were at 0 bytes.  Not very useful to tail.  So, I discovered that Fedora was moving away from rsyslog.  I was not happy.  So, I became root and:

# service rsyslog start

That took care of starting the logging back up, and to make sure that it starts after a reboot, I used nano to edit /etc/rc.d/rc.local and this is what I added towards the top of the file:

## Enable logging (Due to Fedora 20 suckiness)

service rsyslog start

THAT most definitely expresses my sentiment.  😉  I’m sure that uncovering these little issues is far from over, and all I can imagine is that Fedora is trying to ‘dumb down’ the OS to make it more like Windows, or Mac OS, in order to get a wider user base.  Might be what the average ‘Point and Click’ user wants, but NOT what I want.  Good thing that I’ve been at this game long enough to figure out how they are trying to tie my hands.  Well, now that I have the source port numbers, I can get back on the road to figuring out my problem, tomorrow.  😉