Re: Logging Init output?

2001-06-24 Thread will trillich
On Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 12:06:27AM +0200, Joost Kooij wrote: On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 10:52:03PM +0200, Mart van de Wege wrote: I was actually being ironic when I mentioned my 'scant' knowledge. At That's okay, because there are many subscribers to debian-user and some of them appreciate an

Re: Logging Init output?

2001-06-23 Thread Ross Boylan
It is annoying that not all the messages that go to the screen go somewhere else. As one possible reason for this, I'll just tell you what happened when I tried to alter the scripts to write more stuff to a file: it didn't work. The problem is that early in the boot process the file system is

Re: Logging Init output?

2001-06-22 Thread Mart van de Wege
On Thu, 21 Jun 2001 18:12:48 -0500 will trillich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 04:26:41PM -0600, Jimmy Richards wrote: On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 11:36:58PM +0200, Mart van de Wege wrote: I'll provide a little background first: this weekend, the loopback interface on

Re: Logging Init output?

2001-06-22 Thread Joost Kooij
On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 10:28:59AM +0200, Mart van de Wege wrote: Thanks for the tip with shift-pageup. I do know about that but I keep forgetting it. I don't know if it goes back far enough for my purposes, but I'll give it a shot next time. For the record though, I wasn't talking about the

Re: Logging Init output?

2001-06-22 Thread Mart van de Wege
On Fri, 22 Jun 2001 12:35:51 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joost Kooij) wrote: very long and good explanation snipped Thanks Joost. I was actually being ironic when I mentioned my 'scant' knowledge. At least I am happy to report that I know how init works, but I am still a little wary of fooling with

Re: Logging Init output?

2001-06-22 Thread Joost Kooij
On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 10:52:03PM +0200, Mart van de Wege wrote: I was actually being ironic when I mentioned my 'scant' knowledge. At That's okay, because there are many subscribers to debian-user and some of them appreciate an answer that does more than reply to strictly the question asked.

Logging Init output?

2001-06-21 Thread Mart van de Wege
Folks, I'll provide a little background first: this weekend, the loopback interface on my laptop stopped working. I checked all config files, and they are ok, I can also bring up the loopback manually with 'ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1 up' after which it functions normally. I have seen however an error

Re: Logging Init output?

2001-06-21 Thread Jimmy Richards
On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 11:36:58PM +0200, Mart van de Wege wrote: Folks, I'll provide a little background first: this weekend, the loopback interface on my laptop stopped working. I checked all config files, and they are ok, I can also bring up the loopback manually with 'ifconfig lo

Re: Logging Init output?

2001-06-21 Thread will trillich
On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 04:26:41PM -0600, Jimmy Richards wrote: On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 11:36:58PM +0200, Mart van de Wege wrote: I'll provide a little background first: this weekend, the loopback interface on my laptop stopped working. I checked all config files, and they are ok, I can