Re: can't find startup messages since april in /var/log/messages using 2.4.18

[Tony Hoyle]

On Sat, 25 May 2002 10:52:31 +0100, Floydsmith wrote:

> 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?
> 
Look in /var/log/messages.0

I have a machine that does this - exactly the same config as every other
machine but it insists of logging to the backup files.

Tony