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[daniel49]

Flashing by so fast I can't really read it. I have found this bootlogd in /etc/default and it reads

# Run bootlogd at startup ?
BOOTLOGD_ENABLE=No

is this what I need to enable to create a bootlog so I can see the output for the post or should I look elsewhere?

 

[drag]

Not sure what your looking for.. but a log for the systme is kept in /var/log/messages and constantly updated.

In fact if you want to keep track of it you can do things like:
tail -f /var/log/messages

Also usefull for other ones like auth log.

Also the dmesg command is usefull. It will show kernel messages which you can pipe thru grep and whatnot.

I never noticed the bootlog thing before, but you can turn it on if you want. Could be usefull.

 

[daniel49]

Originally posted by: drag
Not sure what your looking for.. but a log for the systme is kept in /var/log/messages and constantly updated.

In fact if you want to keep track of it you can do things like:
tail -f /var/log/messages

Also usefull for other ones like auth log.

Also the dmesg command is usefull. It will show kernel messages which you can pipe thru grep and whatnot.

I never noticed the bootlog thing before, but you can turn it on if you want. Could be usefull.

Not sure what your looking for..
----->A line by line readout of all the info that is flashing past on my screen during bootup think I spotted an error message in there but its going by so fast I am not sure.

 

[nweaver]

dmesg | less

 

[daniel49]

ok ,thanks.

 

[daniel49]

dmesg doesn't seem to show it all from what I have been able to glean about /etc/default/bootlogd
enabling it doesn't seem to work for me, or others ,it supposed to create a log in /var/logs/boot
but isn't and I have found several posts on the net where it did not work for other people either so may be a bug??
oh well