FC4 boot.log no longer being written to
Jeff Vian
jvian10 at charter.net
Sun Jul 17 16:16:10 UTC 2005
On Sun, 2005-07-17 at 10:42 +0100, Ben Roberts wrote:
> The last messages in my boot.log are
>
> sshd: sshd -TERM succeeded
> sshd: succeeded
> xinetd: xinetd -HUP succeeded
>
> I saw somewhere on google groups that someone mentioned that boot
> logs are now written to anaconda.log but surely that can't be the
> case !!
>
> My FC4 system is an upgrade from FC3 - it's also a remote system
> so I really would like the boot log working !!
>
It would appear that something has changed in the kernel logging
facility (init or something similar) that the boot messages are no
longer given local7 status. I think it is bugzilla time for someone who
can test and confirm this.
I checked /etc/syslog.conf and the same line is there on both FC3 and
FC4:
# Save boot messages also to boot.log
local7.* /var/log/boot.log
Yet on my system as well, boot.log is empty on FC4 and has the expected
entries on FC3.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Cornette [mailto:fc-cornette at insight.rr.com]
> Sent: 17 July 2005 02:47
> To: For users of Fedora Core releases
> Subject: Re: FC4 boot.log no longer being written to
>
>
> Matthew Saltzman wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> Messages regarding dhclient are also all that I see in the
> boot.log. I
> didn't mention the /sbin/dhclient messages because I ran dhclient
> to try
> to get my stock kernel to get my network running. It is useful
> information to know that at least the log is useful to resolve
> ethernet
> connection problems? My Installation is an upgrade, so I guess
> the
> problem is not unique to upgrades vs. fresh installations.
>
> Jim
>
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