On Sun, Jul 26, 1998 at 10:09:14PM -0500, Ed Cogburn wrote: > Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > I thought it was found to be possible to have the entry in init for > > the startup scripts pipe the output in to tee, which can then write > > it to both a file and the console? That should capture almost everything. > > > > Hamish > > > The conversation on this list earlier seemed to suggest that the > earliest bootup messages from the kernel couldn't be captured in such a > way because the underlying system routines to do so weren't yet in > existence. So, I took the gist to be that the earlier messages couldn't > be saved.
The kernel saves everything until init starts (and later kernel messages) and they can be retrieved with dmesg, and they are sent to klogd. What else is missing? Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null