Messages between dmesg and login

Dan Nelson dnelson at allantgroup.com
Fri Dec 10 15:25:51 PST 2004


In the last episode (Dec 11), Andrew said:
> >>> I just couldn't find it, where can I get those
> >>> messages, which come during the boot sequence
> >>> just after white text (kernel) and before "login: "
> >>> prompt. Are they even saved somewhere? I know
> >>> that errors are written to /var/log/messages,
> >>> but I need the exact dump of those messages.
> >>> Should I hack into rc?
> >>
> >> Do you mean what is in: /var/log/dmesg.today
> >> and /var/log/dmesg.yesterday ???
> >>
> >
> > Or perhaps he's looking for what's in /var/run/dmesg.boot?
> 
> No, dmesg contains kernel messages. I want to review
> messages produced by rc(8) at startup. Where/how can
> I get them, please?

They should be in /var/log/console.

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson at allantgroup.com


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