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