commit: ee944553a9ea35622046bd1ab5657fd416a7019a Author: William Hubbs <w.d.hubbs <AT> gmail <DOT> com> AuthorDate: Wed Oct 21 19:01:57 2015 +0000 Commit: William Hubbs <williamh <AT> gentoo <DOT> org> CommitDate: Wed Oct 21 19:04:28 2015 +0000 URL: https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/openrc.git/commit/?id=ee944553
bootmisc: optionally save the previous dmesg log X-Gentoo-Bug: 561204 X-Gentoo-Bug-URL: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=561204 conf.d/bootmisc | 5 +++++ init.d/bootmisc.in | 3 +++ 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/conf.d/bootmisc b/conf.d/bootmisc index d79706c..5371209 100644 --- a/conf.d/bootmisc +++ b/conf.d/bootmisc @@ -8,3 +8,8 @@ wipe_tmp="YES" # Write the initial dmesg log into /var/log/dmesg after boot # This may be useful if you need the kernel boot log afterwards log_dmesg="YES" + +# Save the previous dmesg log to dmesc.old +# This may be useful if you need to compare the current boot to the +# previous one. +#previous_dmesg=no diff --git a/init.d/bootmisc.in b/init.d/bootmisc.in index 1a05920..4015d8f 100644 --- a/init.d/bootmisc.in +++ b/init.d/bootmisc.in @@ -216,6 +216,9 @@ start() case "$RC_SYS" in VSERVER|OPENVZ|LXC|SYSTEMD-NSPAWN) ;; *) + if yesno ${previous_dmesg:-no}; then + mv /var/log/dmesg /var/log/dmesg.old + fi dmesg > /var/log/dmesg chmod 640 /var/log/dmesg ;;
