[svlug] /var/log messages

[Rob Walker]

>>>>> On Mon, 30 Nov 1998 11:59:44 -0800, Rick Moen
>>>>> <rick at hugin.imat.com> said:

Rick> Quoting Jonathan Jefferies (jonathanj at allant.com):

>> Any suggestions as to where I might find a copy of
>> the boot messages?

Rick> Use "dmesg | more".  This isn't _just_ boot messages, but with
Rick> reasonable luck your boot messages won't yet have been pushed
Rick> off the top of the buffer.

and even if they have scrolled off the top of the buffer, some
distributions (redhat is the only one I know of, and then only at
version 5.1) are thoughful enough to put the command `dmesg >
/var/log/dmesg` somewhere in their startup scripts.

What does this mean for you?  Look in /var/log/dmesg for your boot
information, even well after a boot.

rob

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