Re: How to capture bootup messages?

[John Kelly <jakelly@shtc.net>]

On Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:21:06 +0100, michael
<linux@networkingnewsletter.org.uk> wrote:

>On Mon, 2005-06-13 at 15:15 -0400, John Kelly wrote:

>> When booting, I see console messages from programs using stdout and
>> stderr, scrolling by too fast to read.  They are not logged in dmesg
>> or any /var/log file.
>> 
>> How to capture them?
>
>man bootlogd

I used sysv-rc-conf to enable it, but it did not start.  Then I
noticed its script checks BOOTLOGD_ENABLE in /etc/default/bootlogd
before starting.

Debian has a lot of knobs to turn; I see it will take some time to
learn my way around.

Thanks for the quick help.