[svlug] /var/log messages

[Rafael Skodlar]

On Mon, 30 Nov 1998, Jonathan Jefferies wrote:

> I've been getting some errors during boot which
> scroll by to quickly for me to examine them.
> Aren't the boot messages - errors and all - copied
> to some log file?  I remember this being so on my
> old slackware system.  But I've not had any luck
> finding them on this Debian 2.0 system that I'm
> currently running.  
> 
> Any suggestions as to where I might find a copy of
> the boot messages?
> 
> jonathan
> <Jonathanj at allant.com>

I won't go into details on log messages others have pointed out, however,
I managed to troubleshot one problem with editing rc.local and other
bootup scripts. A line with "sleep 60" gave me enough time to read or
write down the message from the screen. That's useful because the system
does not (!)  write everything into messages and dmesg logs during boot. 
You can insert a new two lines script in rc3.d directory with the number
that is following whatever you suspect is giving you a hard time. 

Good luck.

Well, I'm back in business after the office move to a temp location and
after the ISP configured the router correctly.  It took them only 4 days
to do it. They had too much turkey in between :-) 

I also rebuilt the firewall due to a bad drive and had other fun.

   Rafael


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