From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 23 19:54:29 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F04737B400 for ; Tue, 23 Jul 2002 19:54:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0B4543E5E for ; Tue, 23 Jul 2002 19:54:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.5/8.12.5) id g6O2sQr8084632; Tue, 23 Jul 2002 21:54:26 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2002 21:54:26 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Ed Yu Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how to capture bootup messages? Message-ID: <20020724025426.GI62770@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20020724022136.GH62770@dan.emsphone.com> <20020724023232.65412.qmail@web20703.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020724023232.65412.qmail@web20703.mail.yahoo.com> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Jul 23), Ed Yu said: > Thanks Dan. I tried it and it does scroll back. Is > there a way to set the number of saved lines? It > doesn't allow me to scroll all the way the the > beginning. Is there a way to set it so that all the > messages can be saved to a file instead? -current logs console out before bootup to /var/log/console. On 4.* and below, you can rebuild your kernel with "options SC_HISTORY_SIZE=###" to increate your scrollback. Just remember that you lose 80*sc_history_size*num_vtys bytes of memory. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message