Hier manual pages tell us that if we want to find miscellaneous log files, we should start by looking in /var/log/:
/var/log
Miscellaneous log files.
Navigating to /var/log and listing its contents shows us that this is the case:
$ cd /var/log$ ls -ltotal 156drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 219 May 12 18:55 anacondadrwx------. 2 root root 23 Oct 9 16:55 audit-rw-------. 1 root root 6 Oct 9 16:55 boot.log-rw-------. 1 root utmp 0 May 12 18:51 btmpdrwxr-xr-x. 2 chrony chrony 6 Apr 12 17:37 chrony-rw-------. 1 root root 807 Oct 9 17:01 cron-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 28601 Oct 9 16:55 dmesg-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 193 May 12 18:51 grubby_prune_debug-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 292292 Oct 9 17:21 lastlog-rw-------. 1 root root ...
