How/where can I see the messages from booting

1999-06-10 Thread wolfgang . schwoerer
Hi all, as you can see I'm new in that media because that's my second try to post a question, because I didn't see my first mail, sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hopefully now that's the right way. I startet with debian installed from a CD included in the german magazin CHIP last year. Having

Re: How/where can I see the messages from booting

1999-06-10 Thread ktb
After you boot you can use the command dmesg and pipe it through less or more. For example at the prompt, $ dmesg | less That won't show the whole boot message but most of it. hth, kent [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, as you can see I'm new in that media because that's my second try to

Re: How/where can I see the messages from booting

1999-06-10 Thread Gerhard Kroder
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: when booting linux there are lots auf messages scrolling away, so I can't read. I guess they are stored in a logfile anywhere in the system for later viewing. But where? you may try look at /var/log/messages, depends on your /etc/syslog.conf, or just try dmesg