On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 9:50 AM, Onkar Mahajan <kern.devel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I want to retain the messages from all the previous boots in the > /var/log/messages > How do I append the messages in /var/log/messages rather than create a new > file > each time during the boot ? > > Regards, > Onkar > > One way to do it would be. Copy /var/log/message to any file at every shutdown. And use logger command to insert contents of this new file at every startup. This would boil down to ... /* Inside Your shutdown script ( rc6.d ) */ $ cat /var/log/message > /tmp/my_logfile /* Inside Your startup script */ $ logger -f /tmp/my_logfile Be advised, /var/log/message will not grow indefinitely, after reaching some size it will start "chopping" out the top. Have a look at man pages of logger and syslog. Thanks -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
