Re: newbie question -- Using Bootlog, Startup Messages, Console

2006-07-25 Thread Willie Wonka
Miles Fidelman wrote: > Ooops. I guess I wasn't as clear as I could have been. > > Editing /etc/default/bootlod to set > BOOTLOGD_ENABLE=yes > > Works like a charm. > > Miles Thanks for clarifying that for me ;-) Regards __ Do You Yahoo!? Tire

Re: newbie question -- Using Bootlog, Startup Messages, Console

2006-07-25 Thread Miles Fidelman
Ooops. I guess I wasn't as clear as I could have been. Editing /etc/default/bootlod to set BOOTLOGD_ENABLE=yes Works like a charm. Miles Willie Wonka wrote: [ apologies for the long time since replying ] Miles Fidelman wrote: Willie Wonka wrote: Mumia W. wrote: AFAIK, that's not the way

Re: newbie question -- Using Bootlog, Startup Messages, Console

2006-07-25 Thread Willie Wonka
Florian Kulzer wrote: > > I'll echo the question about where to find that out other than a helpful > > reply on this list. > > A manpage does not always include specific info about how things are set > up in Debian, unfortunately. (You can file a wishlist bug asking the > package maintainer to i

Re: newbie question -- Using Bootlog, Startup Messages, Console

2006-07-25 Thread Willie Wonka
[ apologies for the long time since replying ] Miles Fidelman wrote: > Willie Wonka wrote: > > Mumia W. wrote: > >> AFAIK, that's not the way you enable boot-logging. Just edit > >> /etc/default/bootlogd. > >> > > > > It did not take affect after a warm (re)boot -- so I'll try your suggestion -

Re: newbie question -- Using Bootlog, Startup Messages, Console

2006-07-22 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Jul 22, 2006 at 15:15:40 -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Willie Wonka wrote: > >Mumia W. wrote: > >>AFAIK, that's not the way you enable boot-logging. Just edit > >>/etc/default/bootlogd. > >> > > > >It did not take affect after a warm (re)boot -- so I'll try your > >suggestion - > >but why

Re: newbie question -- Using Bootlog, Startup Messages, Console

2006-07-22 Thread Miles Fidelman
Willie Wonka wrote: Mumia W. wrote: AFAIK, that's not the way you enable boot-logging. Just edit /etc/default/bootlogd. It did not take affect after a warm (re)boot -- so I'll try your suggestion - but why wouldn't the man page say how to enable it? Or where should I look for that kind of inf

Re: newbie question -- Using Bootlog, Startup Messages, Console

2006-07-21 Thread Willie Wonka
Mumia W. wrote: > AFAIK, that's not the way you enable boot-logging. Just edit > /etc/default/bootlogd. > It did not take affect after a warm (re)boot -- so I'll try your suggestion - but why wouldn't the man page say how to enable it? Or where should I look for that kind of info instead? I'm _

Re: newbie question -- Using Bootlog, Startup Messages, Console

2006-07-21 Thread Mumia W.
On 07/21/2006 09:31 AM, Willie Wonka wrote: [...] So I drop to a VT/VC (ctrl-alt-f2) and login as root; then rerun above command '/sbin/bootlogd -lps' and it *seems* to have taken affect -- but i guess i won't know for sure until I reboot...well here goes ;-) Regards AFAIK, that's not the wa

Re: newbie question -- Using Bootlog, Startup Messages, Console

2006-07-21 Thread Willie Wonka
Wulfy wrote: > man bootlogd it's part of the sysvinit package... :) > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dpkg -S bootlogd > sysvinit: /sbin/bootlogd > initscripts: /etc/init.d/bootlogd > initscripts: /etc/init.d/stop-bootlogd > initscripts: /etc/default/bootlogd > sysvinit: /usr/share/man/man8/bootlogd.8.g

Re: newbie question -- Using Bootlog, Startup Messages, Console

2006-07-21 Thread Willie Wonka
Miles Fidelman wrote: > Wulfy wrote: > > Miles Fidelman wrote: > >> Gabriel Parrondo wrote: > >>> El jue, 20-07-2006 a las 22:09 -0400, Miles Fidelman escribió: > and it turns out that it sure looks like the messages I'm trying to > capture are generated too early in the startup process

Re: newbie question -- Using Bootlog, Startup Messages, Console

2006-07-21 Thread Willie Wonka
Gabriel Parrondo wrote: > El jue, 20-07-2006 a las 22:09 -0400, Miles Fidelman escribió: > > and it turns out that it sure looks like the messages I'm trying to > > capture are generated too early in the startup process to hit the log > > files - guess I have to connect my laptop to the serial p