Re: Finding a log file / creating one for boot messages

From: Catholic Boy (CBoy_at_here.com)
Date: 12/26/03


Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2003 11:42:04 -0600

On Wed, 24 Dec 2003 15:34:18 -0600, Catholic Boy <CBoy@here.com>
wrote:

>k...
>
>What I want is a console log of boot messages - you know, the messages
>that show up on screen during a text boot that scroll by. Th.y look
>like this:
>
> Welcome to Red Hat Linux
> Press 'I' to enter interactive startup.
>
>mounting proc filesystem: [ok]
>
>etc.
>
>
>I've been in /var/log. I've even done grep -D skip -r FAILED * from
>/.
>
>I have found various logs in /var/log but nothing with the stuff you
>see above.
>
>I KNOW there's a way to turn on logging of this stuff by messing
>around in rc.something cuz I think I've done it before. But then,
>I've done a lot of hallucinogens too. Anyone here have an idea?
>
>-Rattyboy

You have to bekidding.... noone knows?



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