On Monday 06 February 2006 13:16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >On Mon, Feb 06, 2006 at 10:06:00AM -0800, David Kirchner wrote: >> On 2/6/06, Lubos Vrbka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > hi guys, >> > >> > is it possible to change (increase) the number of lines that are >> > saved on console? i would like to be able to scroll through the >> > whole boot process history. right now it allows me to go >> > approximately one and half pages back... >> > >> > thanks, >> >> I don't have the answer to your question, but you can run "dmesg" to >> view the console messages. The buffer is limited in size, so you'll >> want to run it immediately after boot. I prefer to use a init.d >> script, set up to run last, to run "dmesg > /var/run/dmesg.boot", so >> I have a copy handy at all times. > >That's the best I've found, too. Unfortunately, I've occasionally >notices a few lines scolling by during boot that do not show up in > dmesg output. Whatever writes them out must bypass the normal > procedure for emitting messages.
Yes, there is that too, and I wish whoever is using the oddball puts() would stop it, cause the only place it ever goes is to the screen itself. Not having that stuff in the logs is a pita... >-- hendrik -- Cheers, Gene People having trouble with vz bouncing email to me should add the word 'online' between the 'verizon', and the dot which bypasses vz's stupid bounce rules. I do use spamassassin too. :-) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
