To quote Ross Boylan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # By the way, is there any reliable way to capture all the messages # which go to the console on system startup? dmesg and the various files # in /var/log do not get everything that shows on the screen--for # example, fetchmail's complaint when it couldn't find a system.
Here's what I do. All various Sxx<script> files are launched from /etc/init.d/rcS . On my system, lines 49 and 54 start them. At the end of those lines, I add "2>&1 | tee /var/log/boot-messages", which lets the messages display on the terminal, and also be captured in /var/log/boot-messages. I'm sure there are different, and possibly better ways of doing it. Dave
