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David Landgren asked on Wednesday January 07, 2004:


>
> I watched the server boot, and I saw nothing that resembled a shell
> error. Is there a way to tee the output of /etc/rc to a file, so that
I
> could scan it afterwards?
>

If you uncomment the 'console.info' line in /etc/syslog.conf, and touch
/var/log/console.log, you should have a copy of all console messages
next time you reboot. This appears to include the output of /etc/rc.