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Date:      Sat, 13 Feb 2010 03:25:41 +0100
From:      Markus Hitter <mah@jump-ing.de>
To:        Paul Schenkeveld <fb-embedded@psconsult.nl>
Cc:        embedded@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Catching /etc/rc's output
Message-ID:  <CD175D72-0E1A-4F8D-870B-E9509EAEE51A@jump-ing.de>
In-Reply-To: <20100212203912.GA79178@psconsult.nl>
References:  <61B7DB7D-CFF0-4691-9693-E289A685A183@jump-ing.de> <20100212203912.GA79178@psconsult.nl>

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Am 12.02.2010 um 21:39 schrieb Paul Schenkeveld:

> On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 05:52:44PM +0100, Markus Hitter wrote:
>>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> it's seemingly such a basic question, but I can't find a way to  
>> redirect
>> /etc/rc's output to a file. Editing /etc/syslog.conf changed nothing,
>> /var/log/messages still stops where /etc/rc should begin. I can  
>> see the
>> output on the console, but that's far to fast for the human eye.  
>> Short of
>> hooking up a serial console to catch the log on a second machine,  
>> is there
>> a way to get this output logged into a file?
>
> Try 'dmesg -a'

That's it. Thanks, Paul.

Obviously, this stuff is in RAM only, so searching the file system  
was the wrong place ...


Markus





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