Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2013 11:37:53 -0400 From: "Mike." <the.lists@mgm51.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: logging during loader Message-ID: <201306241137530494.00ABFF57@smtp.24cl.home> In-Reply-To: <51C86033.7060404@qeng-ho.org> References: <20936.18494.573287.144022@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <51C86033.7060404@qeng-ho.org>
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On 6/24/2013 at 4:05 PM Arthur Chance wrote: |On 06/24/13 14:23, Robert Huff wrote: |> |> During the processing of loader.conf, something gets printed |> that suggests all is not right. However, this is a sufficiently |> modern machine it goes by too fast to read exactly what. |> It is my understanding that file gets read before the system |> logging facilities are operational, and possibly before things like |> ^S/^Q work on the terminal. |> Is there a way to store the results of that phase of boot-up? ============= This has worked well for me, logging the early boot process that usually scrolls by on the screen. I use it on 8.3 and 9.1. I was surprised that it managed to log console stuff that occurred before syslogd was loaded... from syslog.conf # uncomment this to log all writes to /dev/console to # /var/log/console.log # touch /var/log/console.log and chmod it to mode 600 # before it will work console.info /var/log/console.log
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