Hi, On 17.07.2012 22:30, Nicholas Tarr wrote: > > On Tue, July 17, 2012 19:09, Michael Biebl wrote: >> On 17.07.2012 20:47, Roger Leigh wrote: >>> 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? ... >>> >>> Michael, would it be possible to pick up the Ubuntu patch for >>> logging /var/log/dmesg in rsyslog for wheezy? I've set the >> >> Which patch? The link you've given doesn't point to a patch. >> I've not idea what rsyslog is supposed to do here. >> > > That was just a changelog to show that Ubuntu had added the /var/log/dmesg > management to their rsyslog package. This might be the actual patch but > it's buried in tons of other stuff: > http://markmail.org/download.xqy?id=riloisss3gragiu2&number=1 > It seems to use upstart so I'm not sure it's any use here??? >
So, to recap: - /etc/init.d/bootlogs was removed from sysvinit because it apparently duplicated the contents of /var/log/kern.log - due to different log rotation behaviour, the log messages of the boot process are lost for machines which are long-running - now rsyslog should add back /etc/init.d/bootlogs because we don't want to lose that feature. I don't see the logic in that. Can't sysvinit just re-add /etc/init.d/bootlogs if this is a feature we want to continue to provide? Please note that we also have other syslog implementations, like syslog-ng, sysklogd, inetutils-syslogd. Each of those syslog packages would have to re-add the /var/log/dmesg handling. Michael -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth?
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