Is there any easy way to save the boot-time output after the kernel has booted and init has started running '/etc/rc.d/boot'?
Specifically, on virtually every system, at times, messages just wiz by on a bootup (especially after upgrades). Problem is that these init-boot-script error messages are not saved anywhere. They are echoed to the console with error messages occasionally spitting out interspersed with other startup messages, but its hard to track everything down when the messages flit by so fast. Sometimes I can scroll back on the console and see some of them, but the scrollback buffer often doesn't go all the way back to where the dmesg output (also in /var/log/boot.log) stops. Also, simply scrolling back doesn't help get it into a file -- since if you want to use the console, or when other messages get output to the console the boot-startup messages get scrolled off the top of the text buffer. It'd be nice if "boot" could log all console output to a temp file that would be copied into /var/log like boot.msg, on each system startup. I'd expect startup logging to stop as soon as login is spawned to allow user login -- hopefully steering around any user-privacy issues. Is this easily doable in the current setup? Thanks, Linda -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
