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Date:      Mon, 17 May 1999 11:47:57 GMT
From:      mike@sentex.net (Mike Tancsa)
To:        delphi@agata.clio.it (Jilani Khaldi)
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Capturing the output at start-up
Message-ID:  <374001e5.636255547@mail.sentex.net>
In-Reply-To: <MAIL373DDDC5.3F238E28@agata.clio.it>
References:  <MAIL373DDDC5.3F238E28@agata.clio.it>

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On 15 May 1999 16:44:29 -0400, in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions you wrote:

>Hi All, 
>I am struggling with FreeBSD for days. Today, I have reintalled it (FBSD
>3.1 Release), but it still gives me many errors when it starts. How to
>capture these errors in a log file?

This will get you most of the output in /var/log/kernel

touch /var/log/kernel

add the line 
kern.*     <tab>    /var/log/kernel

to /etc/syslog.conf

Make sure that its tab delimited

Tell syslog to reread its config file

kill -1 `cat /var/run/syslog.pid`


	---Mike
Mike Tancsa  (mdtancsa@sentex.net)		
Sentex Communications Corp,   		
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada


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