Re: [SLE] /var/log/boot.log is 0 bytes

From: Scott Leighton (helphand_at_pacbell.net)
Date: 03/29/05

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Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 20:00:37 -0800

    On Monday 28 March 2005 7:53 pm, Felix Miata wrote:
    > Scott Leighton wrote:
    > > On Monday 28 March 2005 7:09 pm, Felix Miata wrote:
    > > > SuSE's /var/log/boot.msg, which has no Mandrake counterpart, bears
    > > > little resemblance to Mandrake's /var/log/boot.log, and has no value
    > > > for this diagnostic exercise. I need to get SuSE to generate a similar
    > > > file to do me any good.
    > >
    > > Did you try dmesg, it may display what you want.
    >
    > No. It overflows the screen, and also lacks the timestamps of boot.log
    > that I use to narrow down points of interest. Where does its output come
    > from?

        dmesg | less

        No idea where the output comes from, possibly it's a specially formatted
    version of boot.msg, but I really don't know.

        Scott 

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