On Wed, 3 Jan 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I'll assume that "mod" is wrong and that you're not complaining about too
> small a kernel buffer. You want to capture not only the kernel messages
> written to dmesg but also the output of all the rc scripts.
If you are running Red Hat Linux 6.0 or greater, look at the
/var/log/boot.log file. This has exactly what you are looking for.
If you are not a fan of Red Hat, it should be possible to obtain the things
you need from the Red Hat "initscripts" package, and integrate them into your
own favorite distro.
> What's missing are the messages, if any, from bcheckrc, fsck, etc -- since
> there's no writable file system space available before they've run -- and
> any other scripts or commands started directly from /etc/inittab.
Red Hat buffers these in memory somehow, I believe. I think they use a
special-purpose daemon called "minilogd" for this.
This feature is one of the main reasons I like Red Hat. The ability to find
out what happened -- or didn't happen -- during boot is invaluable when the
system you're working on is in Boston and you're in NH.
--
Ben Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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