From owner-freebsd-security Thu Jun 28 10: 3: 7 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F97237B414 for ; Thu, 28 Jun 2001 10:02:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ben@FreeBSD.org) Received: from strontium.shef.vinosystems.com ([192.168.91.36] ident=root) by scientia.demon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.30 #1) id 15Ff8k-000E1p-00; Thu, 28 Jun 2001 17:59:38 +0100 Received: (from ben@localhost) by strontium.shef.vinosystems.com (8.11.4/8.11.4) id f5SGxce91371; Thu, 28 Jun 2001 17:59:38 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from ben@FreeBSD.org) X-Authentication-Warning: strontium.shef.vinosystems.com: ben set sender to ben@FreeBSD.org using -f Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 17:59:38 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst To: "Antoine Beaupre (LMC)" Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: security check output, kernel log message Message-ID: <20010628175938.H83829@strontium.shef.vinosystems.com> References: <1444.993740757@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za> <3B3B4C9E.5010800@lmc.ericsson.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3B3B4C9E.5010800@lmc.ericsson.se> Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Antoine Beaupre (LMC) wrote: > I also had my share of "trouble" with that. Sometimes, it's strictly > impossible to have boot dmesg. The kernel dmesg buffer gets overflown, > this is understandable. But /var/log/dmesg.today *also* gets trashed. > > isn't there a nice little file somewhere that keeps *boot* (not > console!) messages? /var/run/dmesg.boot -- Ben Smithurst / ben@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message