From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 25 May 2002 10:21:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 25 May 2002 10:21:41 -0400 Received: from [80.120.128.82] ([80.120.128.82]:48146 "EHLO hofr.at") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 25 May 2002 10:21:41 -0400 From: Der Herr Hofrat Message-Id: <200205251326.g4PDQot16579@hofr.at> Subject: Re: can't find startup messages since april in /var/log/messages using 2.4.18 In-Reply-To: <3a.2744d23a.2a20b7ec@aol.com> from "Floydsmith@aol.com" at "May 25, 2002 05:48:28 am" To: Floydsmith@aol.com Date: Sat, 25 May 2002 15:26:50 +0200 (CEST) CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL60 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > > For some strange reason I can't find where my "startup messagges" are being > stored. I booted up twice this morning (052502) and only get only 1 line in > /var/log/messages which is: > May 25 05:10:05 localhost syslogd 1.3-3: restart. > > All boots since April 11 have only one such entry recorded. "dmesg" and a > "vi" of "messages" show a full log journal for April 11. > I have did a "df" and all file sytems have free space. > > Of course, the meesages do appear on the console at startup. > > Any suggestions? > check your init scripts , you might have some entry/error in /etc/rc.d/boot (or where ever you init scripts lie that clears the buffer befor syslogd/klogd get started. (my /etc/init.d/boot does dmesg -c > /var/log/boot.msg so I get the relevant messages during operation without screens of boot up infos, no boot messages in /var/log/messages this way ither.) hofrat