FC4 boot.log no longer being written to

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Sat, 16 Jul 2005, Jim Cornette wrote:

> Ben Roberts wrote:
>
>> /var/log/dmesg provides different information to what is
>> contained in the usual boot.log file under FC2 or FC3 though ???
>> 
>> I am concerned because boot.log is a valuable source of
>> information, and since upgrading to FC4 it hasn't been updated,
>> despite a fair few reboots while configuring the system etc.... I
>> was wondering if I've removed some rpm package that was needed to
>> facilitate the writing of boot.log whilst purging my system of
>> unneeded packages ??
>> 
>> 
>> 
> I read this log on occasion also. It quit working on my systemand I assumed 
> the same thing. Anomther person who upgraded from FC3 to FC4 mentioned the 
> same problem with no more boot logs.

I checked, out of curiosity, as I have a fresh FC4 install. 
/var/log/boot.log contains only messages about /sbin/dhclient-script 
updating /etc/resolv.conf.  Otherwise, it's empty.

>
> I guess bugzilla reports might shed some light onto why the logs were stopped 
> from recording info.
>
> Ji
>
>

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