On 11/16/06, Mertens Bram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 2006-11-16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Where are the boot-up messsages logged, please? > > dmesg doesn't give me the "Starting... done." messages -- I'd like to > have exactly what is written on the screen during boot-up time. You need to activate bootlogd for this: edit the file /etc/default/bootlogd, change BOOTLOGD_ENABLE to Yes. After a reboot you will find these messages in /var/log/boot. HTH
I found that very helpful - thanks - even though I didn't ask the original question. Is there anything similar which will give the messages on shutdown? Patrick
