On Wednesday 15 November 2006 21:09, Gene Heskett wrote: > 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. > But don't you think that is totally illogical? boot.log would be a much better place for it. Anne
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