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To: Siegbert Baude <siegbert.baude@gmx.de>
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Subject: Re: /var/run/dmesg.boot additional question
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Siegbert Baude wrote:

>>Each  time, when I boot the system, the system will display a lot of
>>messages. If I don't want the message display and only save them in
>>/var/run/dmesg.boot, How do this?
>>
> 
> My question is the other way round.  I would like to have the output
> of the rc scripts (mounting disks, network initialization, Linux ABI,
> ...) also in dmesg. Is there an easy way to achieve this, without
> editing all rc scripts manually?
> Are those messages in any other log by default?


For exactly this reason, I added a small script to /etc/rc.local:
<snip>
#!/bin/sh
#
# bootlog: log the boot messages into a separate file in case the dmesg
# buffer overflows

$f = "boot."`date '+%y%m%d%H%M'`".log"
dmesg > $f
</snip>

HTH
-Christoph Sold


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