Re: bootlogd

[Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>]

On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 13:30:18 +0100, Bob Brewer wrote:

> On my up-to-date sid distro, my /var/log/boot hasn't been updated since
> 13 April 2011 (BOOTLOGD_ENABLE is set to Yes in /etc/default/bootlogd).
> 
> This looks to be the same as  Bug 624289 which was raised against the
> sysvinit-utils package but perhaps should have been raised against the
> initscripts package.

Mmm, in wheezy it works fine, maybe because I have "2.88dsf-13.12" 
version for "sysvinit-utils" package :-?

> I haven't been able to find any workarounds to run bootlogd at boot time
> and need to look at my boot data so I would be interested to know if
> there any alternatives to bootlogd.

"/var/log/boot" file is almost empty because boot messages are splitted 
in two separate files (kern.log for "kernel" messages and boot for the 
"services" part). 

I don't know of any alternative to bootlogd facility but at least kernel 
messages can be "delayed" for user to review them in real-time.

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón