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From: covici@××××××××××.com
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What happened to boot.msg?
Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2009 13:07:54
Message-Id: 25362.1256389666@ccs.covici.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What happened to boot.msg? by Peter Ruskin
1 Peter Ruskin <peter.ruskin@×××××××××.com> wrote:
2
3 > On Friday 23 October 2009 19:00:34 Peter Ruskin wrote:
4 > > On Friday 23 October 2009 16:11:25 walt wrote:
5 > > > On 10/23/2009 07:18 AM, Peter Ruskin wrote:
6 > > > > I just got a new computer and I'm running ~amd64 for the
7 > > > > first time. On my previous x86 machine (some of) the boot
8 > > > > process was logged to /var/log/boot.msg. It doesn't do this
9 > > > > on the new machine and I can't for the life of me recall what
10 > > > > setting invoked this behaviour. Help??
11 > > >
12 > > > /etc/conf.d/rc
13 > >
14 > > Thanks for the reminder, walt. I have RC_BOOTLOG="yes" stored
15 > > there and had emerged app-admin/showconsole and don't have boot
16 > > splash, but I still don't get /var/log/boot.msg.
17 >
18 > Ahhh ... I found it. It's now stored in /var/log/rc.log.
19 However, mine is an empty file even though I have rc_logger="yes"
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