On 05/31/2011 08:25 AM, R. G. Newbury wrote: >> On Mon, 2011-05-30 at 18:36 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: >>>> Just for curiosity, why has no one ever arranged to >>>> log something like "Hey! I'm booting the system again!" >>>> as the very first line in that goes to /var/log/messages >>>> when the system is booting? It does. There are several ways to find the top of the last boot. Assuming that you have rebooted since the last time /var/log/messages was rolled over, you can easily search for the top of the messages. Here are a couple of guidelines: First, the word ' Linux ', note the spaces, is not common in the logs, and always appears near the top of the boot sequence. Usually within the first 4 or 5 lines. Second, no matter how fast your system reboots, the messages written at boot time will be written in a faster sequence than what was happening before the reboot, thus giving an obvious 'break' in the log time stamps at the beginning of a boot. If you check more than a few times, you will notice that syslog itself reports the first line of boot, and you can search for that. So in summary, if you see a syslog startup, followed within a few lines by the word ' Linux ', and what comes after that appear to be BIOS info, and that all these messages happen in the same second or two, you have found the top of the boot sequence. Here is the top of my last boot: ... May 30 08:11:27 grok kernel: imklog 5.7.9, log source = /proc/kmsg started. May 30 08:11:27 grok rsyslogd: [origin software="rsyslogd" swVersion="5.7.9" x-pid="802" x-info="http://www.rsyslog.com";] start May 30 08:11:27 grok kernel: [ 0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpuset May 30 08:11:27 grok kernel: [ 0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpu May 30 08:11:27 grok kernel: [ 0.000000] Linux version 2.6.38.6-27.fc15.x86_64 (mockbuild@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) (gcc version 4.6.0 20110428 (Red Hat 4.6.0-6) (GCC) ) #1 SMP Sun May 15 17:23:28 UTC 2011 ... Good Luck! -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
