From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 24 5:44:36 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 ADF3B37B400 for ; Wed, 24 Jul 2002 05:44:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.nucleus.com (mail1.nucleus.com [207.34.101.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A23443E31 for ; Wed, 24 Jul 2002 05:44:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grant.cooper@nucleus.com) Received: from TCOOPER (unverified [205.206.254.42]) by mail.nucleus.com (Vircom SMTPRS 1.4.232) with SMTP id ; Wed, 24 Jul 2002 06:44:31 -0600 Message-ID: <00cf01c23310$374c3630$2afececd@TCOOPER> From: "Grant Cooper" To: "Ed Yu" Cc: References: <20020724023232.65412.qmail@web20703.mail.yahoo.com> <443cu9qs0f.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Subject: Re: how to capture bootup messages? Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 06:47:05 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 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 This is kind of brute force but it works. ee /etc/syslog.conf /* It may be a default, I forget */ make sure the "/dev/console" is uncommented (activated ) rm /var/log/console.log /* delete old log or copy it */ touch /var/log/console.log /*syslog won't write to an non-existent file*/ reboot -s /* reboot */ ee /var/log/console.log /* there you go, your boot up log */ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lowell Gilbert" To: "Ed Yu" Cc: Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2002 5:34 AM Subject: Re: how to capture bootup messages? > Ed Yu writes: > > > Thanks Dan. I tried it and it does scroll back. Is > > there a way to set the number of saved lines? It > > Yes, that's described in the manual for sc(4), but: > > > 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? > > you mean like /var/run/dmesg.boot? > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message