clone 681639 -1 reassign -1 rsyslog severity -1 important retitle -1 rsyslog: Please log boot messages to /var/log/dmesg tags 681639 + pending thanks
On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 09:39:26PM +0100, nyk wrote: > On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 09:53:31PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 11:41:05PM +0100, Nyk Tarr wrote: > > > Since the deletion of /etc/init.d/bootlogs, as far as I can see there is > > > nothing updating /var/log/dmesg. > > > > > > please re-instate bootlogs. > > > > This should be handled by rsyslogd. Is the content of /var/log/dmesg > > not present in the standard system logs such as /var/log/kern.log? > > This was removed because it was redundant, duplicating existing > > functionality. Is this not the case for your system? > > Not really, no. > > /var/log/dmesg contains the boot message from the startup of the running > kernel and is rotated for each _boot_. /var/log/kern.log contains the last > few weeks of kernel messages as it is rotated weekly. > > On a box that has been up for more than 28 days, it seems that there > will be absolutely no record of the kernel boot sequence at all. This > is a bit disappointing. > > As far as I can see, Ubuntu added /var/log/dmesg to rsyslog in > 5.8.6-1ubuntu1 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/rsyslog/5.8.6-1ubuntu1/ > but I can't find any trace of it in the Debian package. > > Initscripts' postinst still creates /var/log/dmesg and removes it in > postrm. Feel free to reassign this bug to rsyslog et al. but it might > be an idea if you stopped doing that first. Fixed in sysvinit git, pending upload. Michael, would it be possible to pick up the Ubuntu patch for logging /var/log/dmesg in rsyslog for wheezy? I've set the severity to important, but it could be higher given that this is potentially quite important. Thanks, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' schroot and sbuild http://alioth.debian.org/projects/buildd-tools `- GPG Public Key F33D 281D 470A B443 6756 147C 07B3 C8BC 4083 E800 _______________________________________________ Pkg-sysvinit-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-sysvinit-devel
