Log File Query

[Sean 'Shaleh' Perry]

On Friday 27 June 2003 10:32, Ross Boylan wrote:
> 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. --

correct.  dmesg will log kernel messages from startup but if one of the 
daemons failed for some reason there may be no evidence.