Re: LOG messages

[Bob Hilliard <hilliard@flinet.com>]

George Bonser <grep@shorelink.com> writes:

> On Sat, 24 Apr 1999, Fethi A. Okyar wrote:
> 
> > Thats what I mean, isn't there a clean copy of these messages
> > kept in some file somewhere in the system. The /var/log/mesages
> > file is about 1M lines, plus it keeps only a part of the boot
> > message...
> 
> Linux keeps everything up to when the system is booted. The stuff that the
> various daemon init scripts produce is not logged unless the individual
> init scripts log it. That stuff is not coming from Linux, it is coming
> from Debian.


     dmesg|<your favorite pager> is the easiest way to see these
messages.

Bob
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