But some linux distributions do keep the previous boot logs , this will help me to know where the kernel Paniced ??
Regards, Onkar On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 2:33 PM, arshad hussain <arshad.su...@gmail.com>wrote: > On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 9:50 AM, Onkar Mahajan <kern.de...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > I want to retain the messages from all the previous boots in the > > /var/log/messages > > How do I append the messages in /var/log/messages rather than create a > new > > file > > each time during the boot ? > > > > Regards, > > Onkar > > > > > > One way to do it would be. Copy /var/log/message to any file at every > shutdown. And use logger command to insert contents of this new file > at every startup. This would boil down to ... > > /* Inside Your shutdown script ( rc6.d ) */ > $ cat /var/log/message > /tmp/my_logfile > > /* Inside Your startup script */ > $ logger -f /tmp/my_logfile > > Be advised, /var/log/message will not grow indefinitely, after reaching > some > size it will start "chopping" out the top. Have a look at man pages of > logger > and syslog. > > Thanks >
