Re: No entry in /var/log/boot.log

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On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 10:13 AM, Robert <kerplop@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


Rod Rook wrote:

<snip>

> Hi, Lee,
> The problem mentioned in the thread you referred to is usually caused
> by Network Manager, which has nothing to do with boot.log.
> Thanks to you anyway.
Perhaps he meant the thread beginning at
http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2009-October/084836.html

My boot log looks like this:

       [root@mavis log]# pwd
       /var/log
       [root@mavis log]# ls -l | grep boot
       -rw------- 1 root    root          0 Nov  1 04:02 boot.log
       -rw------- 1 root    root          0 Oct 25 04:02 boot.log.1
       -rw------- 1 root    root          0 Oct 18 04:02 boot.log.2
       -rw------- 1 root    root          0 Oct 11 04:02 boot.log.3
       -rw------- 1 root    root          0 Oct  4 04:02 boot.log.4
       [root@mavis log]#

The zero length most like indicates that there are no entries :-;  yet
we can see that the machine has been rebooted:

        [root@mavis log]# grep boot messages*
       messages.2:Oct 22 11:39:13 mavis shutdown[26207]: shutting down
       for system reboot
       messages.4:Oct  5 16:17:33 mavis shutdown[19739]: shutting down
       for system reboot
       messages.4:Oct  5 16:27:07 mavis shutdown[4979]: shutting down
       for system reboot
       messages.4:Oct  5 16:33:25 mavis shutdown[4738]: shutting down
       for system reboot
       messages.4:Oct 10 15:01:46 mavis shutdown[11680]: shutting down
       for system reboot
       [root@mavis log]#

Frankly, I can do very well without have boot.log at all but it seems
that if we have it, it really should work!
Mounting an old CentOS-4 disk, we see that it worked in CentOS 4:

       [root@mavis log]# pwd
       /old-sys/var/log
       [root@mavis log]# ls -l | grep boot
       -rw------- 1 root          root     107353 May 21  2007 boot.log
       -rw------- 1 root          root       8867 May 20  2007 boot.log.1
       -rw------- 1 root          root      17265 May 13  2007 boot.log.2
       -rw------- 1 root          root       2224 May  6  2007 boot.log.3
       -rw------- 1 root          root        105 Apr 29  2007 boot.log.4
       [root@mavis log]#

It's interesting to note that my current /etc/syslog.conf  and the one
in the older version both contain the entry:

         # Save boot messages also to boot.log
       local7.*                              /var/log/boot.log

Beyond ferreting out those details, I am LOST.

Robert, I responded to Lee's statement which referred to http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2009-October/083346.html
It is all there if you follow the thread.
Anyway, you agree with me that there is a bug or bugs in CentOS 5.4. As I said earlier, it is not a critical matter, but it does not instill confidence in me about CentOS distro. What other bugs are there? The interesting thing, at least to me, is that there seems to be conspiratorial silence about such bugs. Nobody wants to speak ill of their beloved distro?

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