You have been subscribed to a public bug: In EC2 and other cloud platforms, the console data is programmatically available.
Our tests in EC2 collect this console output on shutdown / reboot /terminate. The data is very useful. in cloud-init i've added timestamps to output so that information is available in the console log. One thing missing (which cloud-init has no hooks for) is 'shutdown' or 'reboot'. I'd like for upstart to write a message to /dev/console saying: rebooting Wed, 27 Jun 2012 15:52:45 -0400 or something like that. I'd be happy if the 'nih_info' messages in util/reboot.c had at timestamp on them, and got written to /dev/console by default (they do not seem to). ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10 Package: upstart 1.5-0ubuntu7 ProcVersionSignature: User Name 3.5.0-2.2-generic 3.5.0-rc4 Uname: Linux 3.5.0-2-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.2.5-0ubuntu1 Architecture: amd64 Date: Wed Jun 27 19:45:52 2012 ProcEnviron: TERM=screen LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: upstart UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) ** Affects: cloud-init (Ubuntu) Importance: Wishlist Status: Confirmed ** Tags: amd64 apport-bug quantal uec-images -- write timestamp to console on halt/reboot/shutdown https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1018554 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed to cloud-init in Ubuntu. -- Ubuntu-server-bugs mailing list Ubuntu-server-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server-bugs