Re: empty boot log

[Hugo Vanwoerkom <hvw59601@care2.com>]

Florian Ernst wrote:
> Hello Peter!
>
> On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 07:49:44PM -0500, Peter McAlpine wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 2004-01-06 at 19:01, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> >
> > > I no longer have a /var/log/boot although I remember having one, what 
> > > does its presence depend on?
> > >
> > > Hugo.
> >
> > [19:47]-pmcalpin@pitc:~$ dpkg -S /var/log/boot
> > dpkg: /var/log/boot not found.
> >
> > oh.
> >
> > Maybe when I dist-upgraded to unstable it changed. What do you suppose
> > the method used to log my boot msgs is now?
>
>
> /var/log/boot is created by bootlogd from initscripts / sysvinit, but
> recently (since 2.85-8) this logging is turned off by default, see
> the changelogs for details.
> You can turn it on again by editing /etc/default/bootlogd.
>
> HTH,
> Fl
> o

None of that exists in Woody 3.0r1. And you cannot use apt-file with 
CD's. So a possibility is changing sources.list to Woody, getting rid of 
the CD entries, doing an update and then using apt-file and then putting 
everything back again. A lot of work to find out where bootlogd went ;-)

Hugo.