Re: how to log "init" output?
>>> On Sun, 22 Jun 2003 11:48:12 +0100,
>>> "Clive" == Clive Menzies <clive@clivemenzies.co.uk> wrote:
>> I'd like to get more visibility of what's happening when my Debian
>> system boots, but the output of the /etc/init.d/* scripts scroll by so
>> fast that I can't read it.
Clive> 'dmesg' and '/var/log/syslog' are a good start
'dmesg' gives me kernel messages, and syslog records messages that daemons
choose to log. But anything from the init-scripts themselves get lost.
Recently I was having problems with one of the init-scripts, which would
noisily dump it's shell source-code to the console at boot time. The
trouble was that I didn't know which script was having the problem.
Eventually I caught a couple of words as they flew by, and with the help of
grep was able to track it down to /etc/init.d/hotplug (which was upset
about a stray blank line in a config file).
It would have been a lot easier if I'd just been able to scroll back in
/dev/tty1. Sadly, the scroll-buffer seems to get reset when the login
prompt appears. Is there any way to prevent that happening?
--
cheers, Mike (http://www.dogbiscuit.org/mdub/)
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