Re: Bug#1396: System Hangs!

[dwarf@symnet.net (Dale Scheetz)]

>I (foolishly) wrote:
>   > si::sysinit:/etc/init.d/boot >>/var/log/boot
>   > 
>   > [I think that all log files in /var/log/ are automatically rotated?]
>
>Bill Mitchell writes:
>   I just rendered my system unbootable by trying this.
>   (rummages for a disaster disk)
>
>Ooops.  Well, um..
>
>Change that to:
>
>si::sysinit:/etc/init.d/boot 2>&1 | logger -s -p user.info -t /etc/init.d/boot
>
>-- 
>Raul

Well, the above line works, sort of. The messages that appear on the console
from the boot script are now annotated with the tag stuff from logger but
they still aren't showing up in the messages log file (or anywhere else that
I can find). I don't fully understand the priority parameter, so I suspect
that if it were different (correct) that these messages would appear in the
log. The only other thing that I can think of is the -f option. Can I
specify /var/log/messages in the file option and have these messages
interweave with those from the kernel?

Thanks, Dale