Dale <[email protected]> wrote:
> Neil Bothwick wrote:
> > On Thu, 5 Mar 2015 03:08:46 -0500, German wrote:
> >
> >> Thanks Dale, done it. Unfortunately it doesn't log everything. For
> >> instance "Warning: /lib64/rc/cache is not writable" wasn't written
> >> to /var/log/rc.log
> >
> > Of course it wasn't. Warnings about /var not being writeable are not going
> > to be written to /var.
> >
> >
>
> Yea, it won't catch everything. This is sort of designed for that point
> where one log stops and the other hasn't started yet. This is usually
> where dmesg stops and syslog and friends hasn't yet started. Of course,
> if /var isn't mounted, well, it has no where to go.
>
> Isn't those init thingys supposed to fix this sort of thing tho? Isn't
> it supposed to store it in memory until /var is mounted and then dump it?
Make sure your kernel log buffer is as high as it will go, I use 21 if
memory serves which is about a meg or so. Also, I find with an init
thingy and using systemd (Yes I know, don't start a flame war), then I
see everything in its system journal -- much more even than rc.log used
to give me.
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