Catching /etc/rc's output

[Markus Hitter]

Am 12.02.2010 um 21:39 schrieb Paul Schenkeveld:

> On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 05:52:44PM +0100, Markus Hitter wrote:
>>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> it's seemingly such a basic question, but I can't find a way to  
>> redirect
>> /etc/rc's output to a file. Editing /etc/syslog.conf changed nothing,
>> /var/log/messages still stops where /etc/rc should begin. I can  
>> see the
>> output on the console, but that's far to fast for the human eye.  
>> Short of
>> hooking up a serial console to catch the log on a second machine,  
>> is there
>> a way to get this output logged into a file?
>
> Try 'dmesg -a'

That's it. Thanks, Paul.

Obviously, this stuff is in RAM only, so searching the file system  
was the wrong place ...


Markus