Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 09:50:16 -0800 (PST) From: Wayne Lubin <wayneclubin@yahoo.com> To: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Where can i find a startup log Message-ID: <20030219175016.97162.qmail@web41309.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20030219153350.GA53851@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi>
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--- Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> 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 > > -- > Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. > 26 The Paddocks > > Savill Way > PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey > Marlow > Tel: +44 1628 476614 > Bucks., SL7 1TH UK > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of > the message I don't understand what exactly is being suggested here. The part I don't understand is what is being said to done with > 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` Are you suggesting that we add those comments to the file, which obviously does not make sense. Or are you suggesting that we uncomment those lines, but in which case does not make sense because those lines don't exist in my file. Or are you suggesting that we add those lines in uncommented form to the file. Below is a copy of my syslog.conf file # $FreeBSD: src/etc/syslog.conf,v 1.13.2.3 2002/04/15 00:44:13 dougb Exp $ # # Spaces ARE valid field separators in this file. However, # other *nix-like systems still insist on using tabs as field # separators. If you are sharing this file between systems, you # may want to use only tabs as field separators here. # Consult the syslog.conf(5) manpage. *.err;kern.debug;auth.notice;mail.crit /dev/console *.notice;kern.debug;lpr.info;mail.crit;news.err /var/log/messages security.* /var/log/security auth.info;authpriv.info /var/log/auth.log mail.info /var/log/maillog lpr.info /var/log/lpd-errs cron.* /var/log/cron *.emerg * # uncomment this to log all writes to /dev/console to /var/log/console.log #console.info /var/log/console.log # uncomment this to enable logging of all log messages to /var/log/all.log # touch /var/log/all.log and chmod it to mode 600 before it will work #*.* /var/log/all.log # uncomment this to enable logging to a remote loghost named loghost #*.* @loghost # uncomment these if you're running inn # news.crit /var/log/news/news.crit # news.err /var/log/news/news.err # news.notice /var/log/news/news.notice !startslip *.* /var/log/slip.log !ppp *.* /var/log/ppp.log Thanks __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Send Flowers for Valentine's Day http://shopping.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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