On Sun, Jul 26, 1998 at 09:48:13PM -0500, Ed Cogburn wrote: > True, but mingetty isn't the standard getty used by debian. The > standard getty doesn't clear the screen anyway. I'm not sure that the > --noclear switch even applies to it (--noclear is a mingetty switch). I > was referring to the fact that not everything that is printed during > boot-up is stored in a log file anywhere. This was an issue that came > up a couple of months ago in this list. There is currently no way to > 'fix' this problem (would require major, non-trivial kernel hack - and > maybe just isn't possible).
I thought it was found to be possible to have the entry in init for the startup scripts pipe the output in to tee, which can then write it to both a file and the console? That should capture almost everything. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
