Re: boot logging

From: Adam Hardy (adam.ant_at_cyberspaceroad.com)
Date: 08/18/05

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    John Hasler on 18/08/05 13:38, wrote:
    > Adam writes:
    >>OK, so I did that now I'm still looking at the stop_bootlogd script in
    >>/etc/init.d Shall I just get rid of it? I can't figure out why it's there.
    >
    > stop_bootlogd is there to stop the bootlog daemon when booting is
    > complete. Look at the links.

    OK. I'm with you so far. Now that I seem to have boot logging working,
    where is the actual output? Checking in /var/log didn't reveal anything.

    According to man, the default output is /var/log/boot but I don't have one.

     From the bootlogd script, it seems that bootlogd is being started
    without any options, so the default log file should be where it goes.

    Man does say intriguingly:

    Bootlogd tries to parse the kernel command line, looking for console=
    lines and deducts the real console device from that. If that syntax is
    ever changed by the kernel, or a console-type is used bootlogd does
    not know about, bootlogd will not work.

    Could that be what is happening?

    Adam 

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