Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What happened to boot.msg?
Peter Ruskin peter.rus...@dsl.pipex.com wrote: On Friday 23 October 2009 19:00:34 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. Ahhh ... I found it. It's now stored in /var/log/rc.log. However, mine is an empty file even though I have rc_logger=yes -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What happened to boot.msg?
William Hubbs willi...@gentoo.org 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. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com
[gentoo-user] Re: What happened to boot.msg?
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
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What happened to boot.msg?
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. -- William Hubbs gentoo accessibility team lead willi...@gentoo.org pgploveSww1g1.pgp Description: PGP signature
