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Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 15:59:07 +0800
From: Victor Sudakov <sudakov@sibptus.tomsk.ru>
To: Doug Barton <DougB@DougBarton.net>
Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: dmesg buffer between reboots
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On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 11:49:30PM -0700, Doug Barton wrote:
> > 
> > Is it possible to keep the contents of the system message buffer
> > between reboots on FreeBSD for i386? If yes, how?
> 
> 	You can use the console facility in syslog on FreeBSD 4.3 and on.

Thank you. I will try if it catches the death-agony messages and
panics.

> Something like this in syslog.conf will work. Normal rules about
> syslog.conf apply.
> 
> console.*                                       /var/log/console.log
> 
> Good luck,
> 

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