howto log services startup message?

[fedora]

Hi Tim
i completely agree with you about boot.log.
i found, however, somwhere in google's depths a hint, that the previous 
boot.log goes into the rsyslog mark local7, which made me set a syslog 
string into /etc/rsyslog.conf like

# Save boot messages also to boot.log
local7.*                                /var/log/boot.log

but, as you will certainly assume: all to no avail, this "feature" does 
not work either.

suomi

Tim wrote:
> yeti_hym:
>>> Is there a way to save the services startup message to a log file? I get
>>> xxxxx [failed] items sometimes, but the message quick goes away and I can't
>>> catch it.
> 
> Depending on your system, you may be able to press the pause key on the
> keyboard, and halt things for a moment.
> 
> 
> Craig White:
>> already done - as root, look at /var/log/messages and all services
>> should log there but depending upon the service and the problem this may
>> be enough.
> 
> Only a few services have an output into that file, here. 
> 
> I wish whoever decided that boot.log should go away (a few years back)
> never disabled it, as they never released what they considered to be
> their improvement on it.  The old /var/log/boot.log did show all the
> bootup messages that went past the screen as the system started up.
> With all the "okay," "failed," and other messages that happened as they
> tried to start up.
>