Log File Query

[Grant Bowman]

* Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <shalehperry@attbi.com> [030627 18:06]:
> 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.

That always bugged me (pun intended).  Can't a simple enscript or tee be
used to capture this stuff?  I am sure it's more complicated than that,
but why?

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-- Grant Bowman                                <grantbow@grantbow.com>