How to find bootup log in DSL

Forum: Other Help Topics
Topic: How to find bootup log in DSL
started by: hooji

Posted by hooji on Dec. 11 2003,17:09

I searched in directory /var/log but can not found any log for system.
Where are they ?
thanks

Posted by woverin on Dec. 12 2003,05:05

try
dmesg

Posted by hooji on Dec. 12 2003,09:42

I need detailed logs, not only the log for kernel. Like log file messages or boot.log in SuSE.

Posted by mikshaw on Dec. 21 2004,20:11

This would be nice to know. I'm accustomed to having several logs to read through in the event of a problem....DSL doesn't log, so when something goes wrong you pretty much just have to guess what caused the problem. The /var/log files are there, but they're all zeros.

Is there a way to enable logging, maybe via bootlocal?

Posted by roberts on Dec. 21 2004,23:17

Syslog its in there!
Add syslogd to your /opt/bootlocal.sh
If you install to hard drive, I start syslogd, on liveCD I do not.

Actually, I do start it on liveCD when one uses dialup PPP. That is how I show the messages during the ppp neogiation.

Posted by mikshaw on Dec. 22 2004,01:48

groovy!

Another thing ...getting messages from the X server can be accomplished by editing $HOME/.xserverrc. Change "/dev/null" to the name of a log file.