[gentoo-user] Re: Which log file do all the emerge messages get saved in?

[James]

Alan Mackenzie <acm <at> muc.de> writes:

> > > The messages which stream by during an emerge, in particular the
> > > warnings etc. which are repeated at the end of a single emerge
> > > operation.  They're accumulated in a log file somewhere, aren't they?

> > /var/log/portage/elog/summary.log

If you want a finer granularity of control, just set it up
in /etc/make.conf

Here's an example I use on one system:

## LOGGING Control of Ebuilds
PORT_LOGDIR="/var/log/elog/"
PORTAGE_ELOG_CLASSES="info log error"
PORTAGE_ELOG_SYSTEM="save"

Lots of ways to customize the logging of what you emerge.
hth,
James