If you run: /etc/init.d/bootlogd </dev/console >/dev/console 2>&1
it works OK. Running bootlogd after the system has booted will capture future output to the console, which may be useful, and the expected behavior of scripts in /etc/init.d is that their services can be stopped and started at will from a command prompt, so it's quite surprising that bootlogd's init script doesn't work that way. Googling for the error message in the subject of this bug report will provide some evidence that this is a common cause of confusion. The fix is very simple, when running bootlogd from the init script, redirect standard input, standard output, and standard error to the console: start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --exec $DAEMON -- \ $BOOTLOGD_OPTS \ </dev/console >/dev/console 2>/dev/console -----Scott. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org