Re: /var/log/messages question

2011-06-01 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2011-06-01 at 14:47 +0100, Mark Knoop wrote: > At 07:40 on 01 Jun 2011, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Wed, 2011-06-01 at 05:22 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > > > On Wed, 01 Jun 2011 11:51:18 +0930 > > > Tim wrote: > > > > > > > You mean like the old boot.log file, that was going to be > >

Re: /var/log/messages question

2011-06-01 Thread Mark Knoop
At 07:40 on 01 Jun 2011, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Wed, 2011-06-01 at 05:22 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > > On Wed, 01 Jun 2011 11:51:18 +0930 > > Tim wrote: > > > > > You mean like the old boot.log file, that was going to be > > > improved, and was disabled in the meantime, then never was > >

Re: /var/log/messages question

2011-06-01 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2011-06-01 at 05:22 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Wed, 01 Jun 2011 11:51:18 +0930 > Tim wrote: > > > You mean like the old boot.log file, that was going to be improved, and > > was disabled in the meantime, then never was improved? > > Look again :-). All the changes to boot graphically

Re: /var/log/messages question

2011-06-01 Thread Tom Horsley
On Wed, 01 Jun 2011 11:51:18 +0930 Tim wrote: > You mean like the old boot.log file, that was going to be improved, and > was disabled in the meantime, then never was improved? Look again :-). All the changes to boot graphically brought with them one good feature - there is a boot.log file now. -

Re: /var/log/messages question

2011-05-31 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2011-06-01 at 11:51 +0930, Tim wrote: > On Tue, 2011-05-31 at 12:12 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > I think it would be simpler if each new boot simply started a > > new log file. > > You mean like the old boot.log file, that was going to be improved, and > was disabled in the meanti

Re: /var/log/messages question

2011-05-31 Thread Tim
On Tue, 2011-05-31 at 12:12 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > I think it would be simpler if each new boot simply started a > new log file. You mean like the old boot.log file, that was going to be improved, and was disabled in the meantime, then never was improved? -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname

Re: /var/log/messages question

2011-05-31 Thread Joe Zeff
On 05/31/2011 07:25 AM, R. G. Newbury wrote: > It is far easier to add: echo "Completed boot at `date`" > > to the bottom of /etc/rc.d/rc.local > > Then it does not matter whether the system is using the old method or > systemd and whether it is writing to 'messages' or boot.log. The whole point

Re: /var/log/messages question

2011-05-31 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2011-05-31 at 12:28 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Tue, 31 May 2011 10:17:56 -0600 > Phil Meyer wrote: > > > So in summary, if you see a syslog startup, followed within a few lines > > by the word ' Linux ', and what comes after that appear to be BIOS info, > > and that all these message

Re: /var/log/messages question

2011-05-31 Thread Tom Horsley
On Tue, 31 May 2011 10:17:56 -0600 Phil Meyer wrote: > So in summary, if you see a syslog startup, followed within a few lines > by the word ' Linux ', and what comes after that appear to be BIOS info, > and that all these messages happen in the same second or two, you have > found the top of t

Re: /var/log/messages question

2011-05-31 Thread Phil Meyer
On 05/31/2011 08:25 AM, R. G. Newbury wrote: >> On Mon, 2011-05-30 at 18:36 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: Just for curiosity, why has no one ever arranged to log something like "Hey! I'm booting the system again!" as the very first line in that goes to /var/log/messages when

Re: /var/log/messages question

2011-05-31 Thread R. G. Newbury
> On Mon, 2011-05-30 at 18:36 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: >> > Just for curiosity, why has no one ever arranged to >> > log something like "Hey! I'm booting the system again!" >> > as the very first line in that goes to /var/log/messages >> > when the system is booting? > I used to do something l

Re: /var/log/messages question

2011-05-30 Thread Robert Nichols
On 05/30/2011 09:07 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 05/30/2011 05:42 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote: >> Tom Horsley wrote: >> >>> If would be real convenient to have a known string to >>> search for that always precedes the rest of the messages >>> in a new boot. >> >> I agree. >> Even a couple of blank lines w

Re: /var/log/messages question

2011-05-30 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2011-05-30 at 19:07 -0700, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 05/30/2011 05:42 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote: > > Tom Horsley wrote: > > > >> If would be real convenient to have a known string to > >> search for that always precedes the rest of the messages > >> in a new boot. > > > > I agree. > > Even a coup

Re: /var/log/messages question

2011-05-30 Thread Tim
On Mon, 2011-05-30 at 18:36 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > Just for curiosity, why has no one ever arranged to > log something like "Hey! I'm booting the system again!" > as the very first line in that goes to /var/log/messages > when the system is booting? I used to do something like that back when

Re: /var/log/messages question

2011-05-30 Thread john wendel
On 05/30/2011 07:07 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 05/30/2011 05:42 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote: >> Tom Horsley wrote: >> >>> If would be real convenient to have a known string to >>> search for that always precedes the rest of the messages >>> in a new boot. >> >> I agree. >> Even a couple of blank lines w

Re: /var/log/messages question

2011-05-30 Thread Joe Zeff
On 05/30/2011 05:42 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Tom Horsley wrote: > >> If would be real convenient to have a known string to >> search for that always precedes the rest of the messages >> in a new boot. > > I agree. > Even a couple of blank lines would help. > > Indeed. Am I the only one on the

Re: /var/log/messages question

2011-05-30 Thread Timothy Murphy
Tom Horsley wrote: > If would be real convenient to have a known string to > search for that always precedes the rest of the messages > in a new boot. I agree. Even a couple of blank lines would help. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-m

Re: /var/log/messages question

2011-05-30 Thread Tom Horsley
On Mon, 30 May 2011 16:05:07 -0700 Peter Gordon wrote: > imklog 5.7.9, log source = /proc/kmsg started. Yea, the same thing starts mine, but I just thought it would be nice to have something more obvious (and perhaps less likely to change someday :-). -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproj

Re: /var/log/messages question

2011-05-30 Thread Peter Gordon
On 05/30/2011 03:36 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: > If would be real convenient to have a known string to > search for that always precedes the rest of the messages > in a new boot. You could try grep'ing for the Linux version string, always one of the first several lines printed during kernel startup. T

/var/log/messages question

2011-05-30 Thread Tom Horsley
Just for curiosity, why has no one ever arranged to log something like "Hey! I'm booting the system again!" as the very first line in that goes to /var/log/messages when the system is booting? If would be real convenient to have a known string to search for that always precedes the rest of the mes