On Wednesday 15 November 2006 17:03, Anne Wilson wrote: >On Wednesday 15 November 2006 21:09, Gene Heskett wrote: >> On Wednesday 15 November 2006 13:41, Paul Lemmons wrote: >> >I have poked around and found a number of discussions on >> >/var/log/boot.log being empty. Even located a bugzilla report on it >> >(https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=151238). >> > However, what I have not found is a solution. >> > >> >Anybody else figure out how to capture the boot log? >> > >> >$ uname -a >> >Linux xxxx.xxx.xxx 2.6.18-1.2849.fc6 #1 SMP Fri Nov 10 12:45:28 EST >> > 2006 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux >> >> When you boot, the final log, in addition to being appended >> to /var/log/messages is written out to /var/log/dmesg. This is the >> current boot as its overwritten by a new boot. > >But don't you think that is totally illogical? boot.log would be a much >better place for it. > I agree, but thats how its been since Red Hat 5-ish times. >Anne -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
