Log File Query

[Ross Boylan]

On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 10:11:06AM -0700, Aaron T Porter wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 10:05:58AM -0700, Stephen Schroder wrote:
> > Would somebody kindly jog my memory: What is the name of the file that 
> > contains all the data that scrolls by when booting?  Thanks.
> 
> 	/var/log/dmesg (or man dmesg)
Sometimes it doesn't quite catch all the messages, particularly error
messages when things go wrong (unfortunately).  At least, that's my experience.