Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 15:33:50 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Where can i find a startup log Message-ID: <20030219153350.GA53851@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> In-Reply-To: <3E539EF8.9030700@ant.uni-bremen.de> References: <5.2.0.9.0.20030219155726.02712318@mail.pragma.no> <3E539EF8.9030700@ant.uni-bremen.de>
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On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 04:12:56PM +0100, Heinrich Rebehn wrote:
> Andreas Wider=F8e Andersen wrote:
> >At 15:53 19.02.2003 +0100, you wrote:
> >>I hope this isn't a FAQ - i have been using FreeBSD for some years now.
> >>My question: Where can i find a log of all the startup messages that=20
> >>flash by so fast that i can't read them? Not the kernel messages, but=
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> >>daemons that fail to start and such.
> >Type: dmesg or do a # more /var/log/messages
> This only gives me the kernel messages, but not the messages from the=20
> daemons (i.e. sendmail failed and stuff like that)
Edit /etc/syslog.conf and uncomment the console.info line so that is
looks like this:
# uncomment this to log all writes to /dev/console to /var/log/console.=
log
console.info /var/log/console.log
Then:
# touch /var/log/console.log
# chmod 600 /var/log/console.log
# chown root:wheel /var/log/console/log
# kill -HUP `cat /var/run/syslogd.pid`
This will record all of the console output from syslog or the kernel,
as well as the boot messages you are interested in, the next time you
reboot.
Cheers,
Matthew
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