Re: newbie question

[Wulfy <wulfmann@tiscali.co.uk>]

Miles Fidelman wrote:
> Gabriel Parrondo wrote:
> > El jue, 20-07-2006 a las 22:09 -0400, Miles Fidelman escribió:
> > > and it turns out that it sure looks like the messages I'm trying to 
> > > capture are generated too early in the startup process to hit the 
> > > log files - guess I have to connect my laptop to the serial port and
> > > capture the console traffic 
> >
> > If all you need is watch at the messages at boot-time, then you could
> > press the "Scroll Lock" key, which will "pause" the boot process and
> > give you some time to read, then you can scroll with Shift+PageUp or
> > Shift+PageDown. When you're done you press "Scroll Lock" again and the
> > process goes on.
>
> Yeah, but that's too easy :-)
> Besides, it's nice to have a record.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Miles 
man bootlogd  it's part of the sysvinit package...  :)

wulfy@Yewdales-lodge:~$ dpkg -S bootlogd
sysvinit: /sbin/bootlogd
initscripts: /etc/init.d/bootlogd
initscripts: /etc/init.d/stop-bootlogd
initscripts: /etc/default/bootlogd
sysvinit: /usr/share/man/man8/bootlogd.8.gz


wulfy@Yewdales-lodge:~$ apt-cache policy sysvinit
sysvinit:
 Installed: 2.86.ds1-1
 Candidate: 2.86.ds1-1
 Version table:
*** 2.86.ds1-1 0
       500 cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 r1 _Sarge_ - Official i386 
Binary-1 (20051220)] sarge/main Packages
       500 http://ftp.uk.debian.org stable/main Packages
       100 /var/lib/dpkg/status


hope this helps 

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