On Mon Mar 13 2000 at 11:05, Alan Shutko wrote:

> John Summerfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> > Not all boot-time messages are kernel messages; indeed, most of the useful
> > ones aren't. For example, dmesg won't display any of these:
> 
> Personally, I have syslog log everything to VC 12, which makes it easy
> to check things.  It's a quick change to all the machines I administer
> and makes my life much happier.

Hey, great minds think alike!  :)

I vote for that too.  Actually, it is yet another thing I also do to a new
redhat installation:

echo -e "\n\n# log to tty12\n*.*\t\t\t\t\t/dev/tty12" > /etc/syslogd.conf
/etc/rc.d/init.d/syslog restart

VERY useful, very easy to do.

Cheers
Tony
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