On Wednesday 15 November 2006 13:41, Paul Lemmons wrote: >I have poked around and found a number of discussions on >/var/log/boot.log being empty. Even located a bugzilla report on it >(https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=151238). However, >what I have not found is a solution. > >Anybody else figure out how to capture the boot log? > >$ uname -a >Linux xxxx.xxx.xxx 2.6.18-1.2849.fc6 #1 SMP Fri Nov 10 12:45:28 EST 2006 >i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux When you boot, the final log, in addition to being appended to /var/log/messages is written out to /var/log/dmesg. This is the current boot as its overwritten by a new boot. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.