>>> On Sun, 22 Jun 2003 11:48:12 +0100, >>> "Clive" == Clive Menzies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I'd like to get more visibility of what's happening when my Debian >> system boots, but the output of the /etc/init.d/* scripts scroll by so >> fast that I can't read it. Clive> 'dmesg' and '/var/log/syslog' are a good start 'dmesg' gives me kernel messages, and syslog records messages that daemons choose to log. But anything from the init-scripts themselves get lost. Recently I was having problems with one of the init-scripts, which would noisily dump it's shell source-code to the console at boot time. The trouble was that I didn't know which script was having the problem. Eventually I caught a couple of words as they flew by, and with the help of grep was able to track it down to /etc/init.d/hotplug (which was upset about a stray blank line in a config file). It would have been a lot easier if I'd just been able to scroll back in /dev/tty1. Sadly, the scroll-buffer seems to get reset when the login prompt appears. Is there any way to prevent that happening? -- cheers, Mike (http://www.dogbiscuit.org/mdub/) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
