[svlug] /var/log messages

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Rafael Skodlar (raffi at kset.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. 

To acquire complete boot-up information just after boot, one can 
use shift-PageUp in a console session.

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