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Subject: Is stdout from /etc/rc captured anywhere?
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During boot, does FreeBSD capture the output of /etc/rc anywhere?

dmesg is for the kernel only.
syslogd is not used to capture simple 'echo' commands from /etc/rc.

If you can't see the physical console as the system boots up,
is there another method to see this /etc/rc output later?


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