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In the last episode (Jul 12), Andrew McNaughton said:
> That would be very good.  After a server has been running for a while
> the boot info gets displaced out of the buffer dmesg accesses, and
> the logs in /var/log would typically have been rolled over and
> removed as well.
> 
> On my servers I run an rc.d script which stores the dmesg output for
> future reference.  Is something like that worth adding to the
> standard distribution?

It's actually already logged into /var/run/dmesg.boot .

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	Dan Nelson
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