From owner-freebsd-security Thu Jun 28 12:25:33 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from stimpy.net (adsl-63-193-11-3.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.193.11.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86EBE37B407; Thu, 28 Jun 2001 12:25:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jgross@stimpy.net) Received: by stimpy.net (Postfix, from userid 314) id 4C88F300EB; Thu, 28 Jun 2001 12:25:19 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 12:25:19 -0700 From: Joe Gross To: Ben Smithurst Cc: "Antoine Beaupre (LMC)" , freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: security check output, kernel log message Message-ID: <20010628122519.A79443@felix.stimpy.net> References: <1444.993740757@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za> <3B3B4C9E.5010800@lmc.ericsson.se> <20010628175938.H83829@strontium.shef.vinosystems.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20010628175938.H83829@strontium.shef.vinosystems.com>; from ben@FreeBSD.org on Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 05:59:38PM +0100 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 On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 05:59:38PM +0100, Ben Smithurst wrote: > > isn't there a nice little file somewhere that keeps *boot* (not > > console!) messages? > > /var/run/dmesg.boot (quickly drifting OT) From /etc/rc: # Keep a copy of the boot messages around dmesg >/var/run/dmesg.boot Unfortunately in my case the dmesg buffer is too small so I miss all the meaty early boot messages. Is this a settable option or is there some other way to have all the boot messages saved without a serial console? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message