Empty bool.log

[Anne Wilson]

On Wednesday 15 November 2006 21:09, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Wednesday 15 November 2006 13:41, Paul Lemmons wrote:
> >I have poked around and found a number of discussions on
> >/var/log/boot.log being empty. Even located a bugzilla report on it
> >(https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=151238). However,
> >what I have not found is a solution.
> >
> >Anybody else figure out how to capture the boot log?
> >
> >$ uname -a
> >Linux xxxx.xxx.xxx 2.6.18-1.2849.fc6 #1 SMP Fri Nov 10 12:45:28 EST 2006
> >i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
>
> When you boot, the final log, in addition to being appended
> to /var/log/messages is written out to /var/log/dmesg.  This is the
> current boot as its overwritten by a new boot.
>
But don't you think that is totally illogical?  boot.log would be a much 
better place for it.

Anne
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