>
> Zenon Fortuna wrote:
> >
> > Depending on the system setup, the most of the boot-up messages are also
> > collected into "/var/log/messages". At least my Debian system works like
> > that.
>
> this is unlikely to contain the kernel start up messages (as opposed to
> stuff that started after syslogd, and hence init). It's possible for
> init to be instructed to cat /proc/kmesg to /var/log/messages I suppose,
> but is it common?
>
> Dave.
>
That's correct: i.e. only the messages after syslogd get captured into
/var/log/messages.
The /proc/kmsg messages are not appended.
One can append the dmesg messages into (any) logfile, for example
adding "dmesg >> $YOUR_FILE" in /etc/rc2.d/S10sysklogd file.
But this is not common.
Zenon
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