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

[Der Herr Hofrat]

> 
> 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?
>
check your init scripts , you might have some entry/error in /etc/rc.d/boot (or where ever you init scripts lie that clears the buffer befor syslogd/klogd get started. (my /etc/init.d/boot does dmesg -c > /var/log/boot.msg so I get the relevant messages during operation without screens of boot up infos, no boot messages in /var/log/messages this way ither.)

hofrat