From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 14 10:27:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta03-svc.ntlworld.com (mta03-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.43]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 604DE37B584 for ; Fri, 14 Jul 2000 10:27:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org) Received: from parish.my.domain ([62.253.88.87]) by mta03-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.27 201-229-119-110) with ESMTP id <20000714172658.UFN16423.mta03-svc.ntlworld.com@parish.my.domain>; Fri, 14 Jul 2000 18:26:58 +0100 Received: (from mark@localhost) by parish.my.domain (8.9.3/8.9.3) id SAA01892; Fri, 14 Jul 2000 18:26:54 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mark) Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 18:26:53 +0100 From: Mark Ovens To: "David J. Kanter" Cc: FreeBSD questions Subject: Re: Viewing all start-up messages Message-ID: <20000714182653.D237@parish> References: <20000713204223.A5542@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <20000713204223.A5542@localhost.localdomain>; from djkanter@northwestern.edu on Thu, Jul 13, 2000 at 08:42:23PM -0500 Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Jul 13, 2000 at 08:42:23PM -0500, David J. Kanter wrote: > There is some start-up information that I'd like to view, but which is not > picked up by dmesg. How can I view this? > > For instance, all the messages about what's being booted from /etc/rc. When > I upgraded to 4.0, there were some non-critical start-up errors that flashed > by too quickly for me to catch. One I happened to notice was > /var/log/security not existing...but that was pretty painful to catch. > > How can I look at all those messages that occur after the kernel boots? I > tried but that doesn't show them either. > It should do in 4.0. You couldn't scroll back in 3.x if you had changed the console resolution via ``allscreens_flags'' (e.g. VGA_80x43) but syscons(4) had a major re-write which added the functionality. > Thanks. > -- > David Kanter > djkanter@northwestern.edu > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- If I buy a copy of WinDelete, and it doesn't delete Windows, am I entitled to my money back? ________________________________________________________________ FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark/ mailto:marko@freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message