Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 16:39:13 +0100 From: Heinrich Rebehn <rebehn@ant.uni-bremen.de> To: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Where can i find a startup log Message-ID: <3E53A521.3040007@ant.uni-bremen.de> In-Reply-To: <20030219153350.GA53851@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> References: <5.2.0.9.0.20030219155726.02712318@mail.pragma.no> <3E539EF8.9030700@ant.uni-bremen.de> <20030219153350.GA53851@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi>
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Matthew Seaman wrote: > On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 04:12:56PM +0100, Heinrich Rebehn wrote: > >>Andreas Widerĝe 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 >>>>flash by so fast that i can't read them? Not the kernel messages, but >>>>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 >>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 > Thanks, Matthew this really did the trick. One is never finished learning.. :-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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