retitle 663587 bootlogd: missing former /etc/default/bootlogd file confuses people thanks
> bootlogd: Missing /etc/default/bootlogd file We have a similar report found in #689992: > I want to read the boot messages but, according to the wiki, there is > no config file anymore. It seems that bootlogd runs as a service now. > OK bootlogd was split to its own package a while ago, which made /etc/default/bootlogd obsolete: > sysvinit-utils (2.88dsf-14) unstable; urgency=low > > bootlogd has moved from sysvinit-utils to a separate bootlogd > package. If you wish to continue using bootlogd, please > install the bootlogd package. Note that the configuration file > /etc/default/bootlogd and its option BOOTLOGD_ENABLE no longer > exist; if you do not wish to run bootlogd, remove the bootlogd > package. > > -- Josh Triplett <j...@joshtriplett.org> Sun, 09 Oct 2011 01:50:15 -0700 So I think that the meaning of the original report here is that they read in some documentation somewhere or expected to edit /etc/default/bootlogd to enable bootlogd, and figured something was wrong because that file didn't exist on their system. So this would be a case of outdated documentation somewhere or "according to the wiki", or maybe just old habits. As for the sysvinit package, I don't see that the change was documented elsewhere than in the changelog, but anyway it's a bit late for that. This can probably be closed. The second report in this thread seems unrelated and would be a case similar to #768555. -- Pierre Ynard
