On Tue, July 17, 2012 19:09, Michael Biebl wrote: > 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. >
That was just a changelog to show that Ubuntu had added the /var/log/dmesg management to their rsyslog package. This might be the actual patch but it's buried in tons of other stuff: http://markmail.org/download.xqy?id=riloisss3gragiu2&number=1 It seems to use upstart so I'm not sure it's any use here??? Personally, I don't care which package manages this log file, I just want it back! Thanks, Nyk -- /__ \_|\/ /\ Via webmail -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
