On Mon, 27 Jan 2014 10:23:31 EST Tim Daneliuk wrote:
> 
> Is there some special sauce to get /var/run/dmesg.boot to be
> populated with the boot time system messages?   Mine is empty
> and I'm not quite sure why...
> 
> Thanks,

It should happen automatically in the default system config.
There should be a 'dmesg_enable="YES"' line in your
/etc/defaults/rc.conf file, so you should get that behavior
unless that variable is set to "NO" in /etc/rc.conf.

Which version of FreeBSD are you running?  (I doubt it makes
a difference, but it would be good to say what it is).

One thing that might be happening is that /etc/rc.d/dmesg is
run at startup, but then something mounts a new filesystem
on top of /var .

You could always run /etc/rc.d/dmesg shortly after a system
reboot, and see what that does to /var/run/dmesg.boot.

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Garance Alistair Drosehn                =     drosih@rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer               or   gad@FreeBSD.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute;             Troy, NY;  USA


