On 17.07.2012 20:47, Roger Leigh wrote: > clone 681639 -1 > reassign -1 rsyslog > severity -1 important > retitle -1 rsyslog: Please log boot messages to /var/log/dmesg > tags 681639 + pending > thanks > > On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 09:39:26PM +0100, nyk wrote: >> On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 09:53:31PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: >>> On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 11:41:05PM +0100, Nyk Tarr wrote: >>>> Since the deletion of /etc/init.d/bootlogs, as far as I can see there is >>>> nothing updating /var/log/dmesg. >>>> >>>> please re-instate bootlogs. >>> >>> This should be handled by rsyslogd. Is the content of /var/log/dmesg >>> not present in the standard system logs such as /var/log/kern.log? >>> This was removed because it was redundant, duplicating existing >>> functionality. Is this not the case for your system? >> >> Not really, no. >> >> /var/log/dmesg contains the boot message from the startup of the running >> kernel and is rotated for each _boot_. /var/log/kern.log contains the last >> few weeks of kernel messages as it is rotated weekly. >> >> On a box that has been up for more than 28 days, it seems that there >> will be absolutely no record of the kernel boot sequence at all. This >> is a bit disappointing. >> >> As far as I can see, Ubuntu added /var/log/dmesg to rsyslog in >> 5.8.6-1ubuntu1 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/rsyslog/5.8.6-1ubuntu1/ >> but I can't find any trace of it in the Debian package. >> >> Initscripts' postinst still creates /var/log/dmesg and removes it in >> postrm. Feel free to reassign this bug to rsyslog et al. but it might >> be an idea if you stopped doing that first. > > Fixed in sysvinit git, pending upload. > > Michael, would it be possible to pick up the Ubuntu patch for > logging /var/log/dmesg in rsyslog for wheezy? I've set the
Which patch? The link you've given doesn't point to a patch. I've not idea what rsyslog is supposed to do here. -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth?
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