On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 6:43 PM, Mauro Santos <registo.mailling@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Do you know if the shutdown messages are logged somewhere or if it's > possible to log them somewhere (I've grepped through the logs but didn't > find anything), as it might come in handy since shutdown happens really > fast and there isn't much time to read any warnings or errors. We don't log shutdown as the disks are being unmounted. What I usually do is to edit /etc/rc.conf and add "bash" on a line just before the final shutdown. That will give you a shell and you can view the previous messages, and when you are done you just "exit" to continue shutting down. Cheers, Tom
