Empty bool.log

Gene Heskett gene.heskett at verizon.net
Wed Nov 15 21:09:09 UTC 2006


On Wednesday 15 November 2006 13:41, Paul Lemmons wrote:
>I have poked around and found a number of discussions on
>/var/log/boot.log being empty. Even located a bugzilla report on it
>(https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=151238). However,
>what I have not found is a solution.
>
>Anybody else figure out how to capture the boot log?
>
>$ uname -a
>Linux xxxx.xxx.xxx 2.6.18-1.2849.fc6 #1 SMP Fri Nov 10 12:45:28 EST 2006
>i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

When you boot, the final log, in addition to being appended 
to /var/log/messages is written out to /var/log/dmesg.  This is the 
current boot as its overwritten by a new boot.

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