On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 01:23:42PM -0500, dman wrote: > On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 10:34:34AM -0600, Dave Sherohman wrote: > | ...unless your boot process concludes with something very verbose > | (such as the md subsystem) spewing >8kB of useless messages which > | drive everything else out of dmesg's buffer. > > In which case > less /var/log/messages > will show you everything.
Cool... Hadn't noticed that it ended up there too. Debian uses /var/log/messages for so little that I never bothered to look there. Still a minor problem with it in that logs get rotated and /var/log/messages gets rotated into /dev/null after a month or so (and, even if it's there, it might be in one of the other /var/log/messages* files), though. It would be nice to have a permanent record of messages from the most recent boot (along the lines of /var/log/dmesg, but with the full list regardless of size instead of just what fits in dmesg's buffer) regardless of uptime, but, in the real world, a record that lasts for a month is usually sufficient. -- When we reduce our own liberties to stop terrorism, the terrorists have already won. - reverius Innocence is no protection when governments go bad. - Tom Swiss
