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Miles Fidelman
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PostPosted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 9:20 pm    Post subject: newbie question Reply with quote
Hi,

I'm trying to wring the nits out of a new installation. One thing that's
driving me crazy is that not all the boot messages end up in dmesg or
syslog (for example, the memory size message seems to not be there).

This seems different that other unices I've used.

Are there some settings that control what's logged at boot time?

Thanks much,

Miles


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Gabriel Parrondo
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PostPosted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 11:40 pm    Post subject: Re: newbie question Reply with quote
El jue, 20-07-2006 a las 17:01 -0400, Miles Fidelman escribió:
Quote:
Are there some settings that control what's logged at boot time?

Hope this helps:
man syslog.conf
man sysklogd




Cheers.


PS: next time it would be better that you read the documentation and
"google" for a while before you ask. Some people get annoyed when people
asks without searching. Besides, you can learn a lot while searching
what you need ;)

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Miles Fidelman
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 21, 2006 2:10 am    Post subject: Re: newbie question Reply with quote
Gabriel Parrondo wrote:
Quote:
El jue, 20-07-2006 a las 17:01 -0400, Miles Fidelman escribió:
Are there some settings that control what's logged at boot time?

Hope this helps:
man syslog.conf
man sysklogd

Cheers.


PS: next time it would be better that you read the documentation and
"google" for a while before you ask. Some people get annoyed when people
asks without searching. Besides, you can learn a lot while searching
what you need Wink

understood..

and it turns out that it sure looks like the messages I'm trying to
capture are generated too early in the startup process to hit the log
files - guess I have to connect my laptop to the serial port and capture
the console traffic

Thanks,

Miles



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Gabriel Parrondo
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 21, 2006 2:20 am    Post subject: Re: newbie question Reply with quote
El jue, 20-07-2006 a las 22:09 -0400, Miles Fidelman escribió:
Quote:
and it turns out that it sure looks like the messages I'm trying to
capture are generated too early in the startup process to hit the log
files - guess I have to connect my laptop to the serial port and
capture the console traffic

If all you need is watch at the messages at boot-time, then you could
press the "Scroll Lock" key, which will "pause" the boot process and
give you some time to read, then you can scroll with Shift+PageUp or
Shift+PageDown. When you're done you press "Scroll Lock" again and the
process goes on.




Cheers.
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Miles Fidelman
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 21, 2006 2:40 am    Post subject: Re: newbie question Reply with quote
Gabriel Parrondo wrote:
Quote:
El jue, 20-07-2006 a las 22:09 -0400, Miles Fidelman escribió:
and it turns out that it sure looks like the messages I'm trying to
capture are generated too early in the startup process to hit the log
files - guess I have to connect my laptop to the serial port and
capture the console traffic

If all you need is watch at the messages at boot-time, then you could
press the "Scroll Lock" key, which will "pause" the boot process and
give you some time to read, then you can scroll with Shift+PageUp or
Shift+PageDown. When you're done you press "Scroll Lock" again and the
process goes on.

Yeah, but that's too easy Smile
Besides, it's nice to have a record.

Cheers,

Miles


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Wulfy
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 21, 2006 3:10 am    Post subject: Re: newbie question Reply with quote
Miles Fidelman wrote:
Quote:
Gabriel Parrondo wrote:
El jue, 20-07-2006 a las 22:09 -0400, Miles Fidelman escribió:
and it turns out that it sure looks like the messages I'm trying to
capture are generated too early in the startup process to hit the
log files - guess I have to connect my laptop to the serial port and
capture the console traffic

If all you need is watch at the messages at boot-time, then you could
press the "Scroll Lock" key, which will "pause" the boot process and
give you some time to read, then you can scroll with Shift+PageUp or
Shift+PageDown. When you're done you press "Scroll Lock" again and the
process goes on.

Yeah, but that's too easy Smile
Besides, it's nice to have a record.

Cheers,

Miles
man bootlogd it's part of the sysvinit package... Smile


wulfy@Yewdales-lodge:~$ dpkg -S bootlogd
sysvinit: /sbin/bootlogd
initscripts: /etc/init.d/bootlogd
initscripts: /etc/init.d/stop-bootlogd
initscripts: /etc/default/bootlogd
sysvinit: /usr/share/man/man8/bootlogd.8.gz


wulfy@Yewdales-lodge:~$ apt-cache policy sysvinit
sysvinit:
Installed: 2.86.ds1-1
Candidate: 2.86.ds1-1
Version table:
*** 2.86.ds1-1 0
500 cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 r1 _Sarge_ - Official i386
Binary-1 (20051220)] sarge/main Packages
500 http://ftp.uk.debian.org stable/main Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status


hope this helps

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Miles Fidelman
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 21, 2006 12:40 pm    Post subject: Re: newbie question Reply with quote
Wulfy wrote:
Quote:
Miles Fidelman wrote:
Gabriel Parrondo wrote:
El jue, 20-07-2006 a las 22:09 -0400, Miles Fidelman escribió:
and it turns out that it sure looks like the messages I'm trying to
capture are generated too early in the startup process to hit the
log files - guess I have to connect my laptop to the serial port and
capture the console traffic

If all you need is watch at the messages at boot-time, then you could
press the "Scroll Lock" key, which will "pause" the boot process and
give you some time to read, then you can scroll with Shift+PageUp or
Shift+PageDown. When you're done you press "Scroll Lock" again and the
process goes on.

Yeah, but that's too easy Smile
Besides, it's nice to have a record.

Cheers,

Miles
man bootlogd it's part of the sysvinit package... Smile

seems to be installed and running, but I think some of the messages I'm
looking for get generated before bootlogd gets started

I think it's back to capturing the console traffic directly

thanks,

Miles


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