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From: Nikos Vassiliadis <nvass@teledomenet.gr>
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Subject: Re: Is stdout from /etc/rc captured anywhere?
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On Tuesday 22 August 2006 03:13, David Thompson wrote:
> During boot, does FreeBSD capture the output of /etc/rc anywhere?
>

no, I think...

> 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?
>

You can use "dmesg -a" and see what was written to the console.

Nikos