William Hubbs <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 07:00:34PM +0100, Peter Ruskin wrote:
> > On Friday 23 October 2009 16:11:25 walt wrote:
> > > On 10/23/2009 07:18 AM, Peter Ruskin wrote:
> > > > I just got a new computer and I'm running ~amd64 for the first
> > > > time. On my previous x86 machine (some of) the boot process was
> > > > logged to /var/log/boot.msg. It doesn't do this on the new
> > > > machine and I can't for the life of me recall what setting
> > > > invoked this behaviour. Help??
> > >
> > > /etc/conf.d/rc
> >
> > Thanks for the reminder, walt. I have RC_BOOTLOG="yes" stored there
> > and had emerged app-admin/showconsole and don't have boot splash,
> > but I still don't get /var/log/boot.msg.
>
> If you are running ~amd64 you are probably using baselayout-2 and
> openrc. In that case the file you should be looking at is /etc/rc.conf and
> you
> should not use app-admin/showconsole.
>
> Just set RC_LOGGER to yes as shown in the comments.
I discovered that the reason its blank is there is something rotating
the file, even though I don't have it in logrotate.conf or logrotate.d
-- very strange.
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