From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 19 14:37:13 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8538A37B401 for ; Wed, 19 Feb 2003 14:37:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from mta06-svc.ntlworld.com (mta06-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.46]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B173F43F93 for ; Wed, 19 Feb 2003 14:37:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from scott@fishballoon.org) Received: from fishballoon.org ([80.4.125.54]) by mta06-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20030219223704.KTVF4022.mta06-svc.ntlworld.com@fishballoon.org>; Wed, 19 Feb 2003 22:37:04 +0000 Received: from tuatara.fishballoon.org (tuatara [192.168.1.6]) by fishballoon.org (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id h1JMakh9013364; Wed, 19 Feb 2003 22:36:47 GMT (envelope-from scott@tuatara.fishballoon.org) Received: (from scott@localhost) by tuatara.fishballoon.org (8.12.7/8.12.7/Submit) id h1JMbxuf068445; Wed, 19 Feb 2003 22:37:59 GMT (envelope-from scott) Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 22:37:59 +0000 From: Scott Mitchell To: Wayne Lubin Cc: Scott Mitchell , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Where can i find a startup log Message-ID: <20030219223759.GB409@tuatara.fishballoon.org> References: <20030219182456.GA66250@tuatara.fishballoon.org> <20030219193405.48195.qmail@web41304.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030219193405.48195.qmail@web41304.mail.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 11:34:05AM -0800, Wayne Lubin wrote: > Ahh ok. What confused me was that there were similar > looking statements already contained in the > syslog.conf file. > > With that in mind I now see the purpose of all of the > commands except the last one. For what reason does one > have to perform > > kill -HUP `cat /var/run/syslogd.pid` > > In other words why must one stop the syslogd daemon? > It will only start up again upon the next reboot. > > And one more question. after doing the above things, > to see the the full listing of boot up messages does > one still only need to do a dmesg? Hi Wayne, I think Jonathan answered the first part of your question... as for the second part, you'll need to look in /var/log/console.log as well as the dmesg output. Cheers, Scott To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message