Forgot to CC: the bug...
Apologies,
Nyk
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On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 09:53:31PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 11:41:05PM +0100, Nyk Tarr wrote:
> > Since the deletion of /etc/init.d/bootlogs, as far as I can see there is
> > nothing updating /var/log/dmesg.
> >
> > please re-instate bootlogs.
>
> This should be handled by rsyslogd. Is the content of /var/log/dmesg
> not present in the standard system logs such as /var/log/kern.log?
> This was removed because it was redundant, duplicating existing
> functionality. Is this not the case for your system?
Not really, no.
/var/log/dmesg contains the boot message from the startup of the running
kernel and is rotated for each _boot_. /var/log/kern.log contains the last
few weeks of kernel messages as it is rotated weekly.
On a box that has been up for more than 28 days, it seems that there
will be absolutely no record of the kernel boot sequence at all. This
is a bit disappointing.
As far as I can see, Ubuntu added /var/log/dmesg to rsyslog in
5.8.6-1ubuntu1 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/rsyslog/5.8.6-1ubuntu1/
but I can't find any trace of it in the Debian package.
Initscripts' postinst still creates /var/log/dmesg and removes it in
postrm. Feel free to reassign this bug to rsyslog et al. but it might
be an idea if you stopped doing that first.
Regards,
Nyk
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