Richard Elling wrote: > Darren Reed wrote: > >> I'm thinking along the lines of "system didn't come up cleanly, >> what was the damage?" and being able to see a single collection >> of output from all of the services, making it easy to see what >> did or didn't work, what happened when in relation to everything >> else over time, etc. > > > svcs -x[v] will show what is wedged and what it affects. This is > new, we never had something like it before. > >> Maybe this would a start would be an addition to the svclog script >> that is being developed - have an option to say "show me only the >> log content since the last boot"? > > > I like this idea. Take a time argument and only show me log entries > after that time. It could determine the last boot time itself, though > I think we will find that there are more interesting events than just > boot, hence the desire for a generic time argument, too.
Indeed, although I think it is worthwhile making the understanding of the time field accept some plain text words, such as "since-boot" or "since-shutdown" or "since-restart". Darren
