RE: Where to view bootup info ? dmesg ??
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andy [mailto:list@firman.us]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 7:34 PM
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Where to view bootup info ? dmesg ??
>
>
> >Andy initially wrote:
> >So I did this command: grep -r cardmgr /var/log |less
> >and can't find that message that scrolls by on bootup.
>
> >Then dave mallery wrote:
> > less /var/log/dmesg
>
> It is not in there. I just checked again for the umpteeth time.
>
> Allow me to ask an even more basic question please:
>
> Is EVERY single message/text that scrolls by during boot up logged
> into /var/log/dmesg ???
>
> If so ... then I am seeing things....
Me too. I've seen this question asked, then answered "It's in
/var/log/something". As far as I can tell it isn't. The first messages I see
in any /var/log/ file is from klogd (duh) so anything before that is
apparently lost. Granted, I have no idea just how much comes before klogd
since it scrolls by too fast but I don't think I'm missing too much.
So is it in /var/log/something? Probably. Is it all there? I'm not convinced
and there's no way to check.
Interesting note: In rc2.d, hotplug will run before klogd as they are both
S11. Maybe I'm losing hotplug messages?
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