From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1N1PNM-0003p6-TT for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 23 Oct 2009 19:00:37 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1B5B4E0667; Fri, 23 Oct 2009 19:00:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from cdptpa-omtalb.mail.rr.com (cdptpa-omtalb.mail.rr.com [75.180.132.122]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ECCB2E0667 for ; Fri, 23 Oct 2009 19:00:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from linux1.localdomain ([76.183.49.63]) by cdptpa-omta02.mail.rr.com with ESMTP id <20091023190034632.UAGJ12118@cdptpa-omta02.mail.rr.com> for ; Fri, 23 Oct 2009 19:00:34 +0000 Received: by linux1.localdomain (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 4C34D43C03; Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:00:33 -0500 (CDT) Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:00:33 -0500 From: William Hubbs To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What happened to boot.msg? Message-ID: <20091023190033.GA2907@linux1> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <200910231518.22412.peter.ruskin@dsl.pipex.com> <200910231900.34627.peter.ruskin@dsl.pipex.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="sdtB3X0nJg68CQEu" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200910231900.34627.peter.ruskin@dsl.pipex.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-Archives-Salt: 36ebc7bb-f308-4d36-b17b-e7c163e78ce9 X-Archives-Hash: 7a9876de0080447056e73adf30c36695 --sdtB3X0nJg68CQEu Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 07:00:34PM +0100, Peter Ruskin wrote: > On Friday 23 October 2009 16:11:25 walt wrote: > > On 10/23/2009 07:18 AM, Peter Ruskin wrote: > > > I just got a new computer and I'm running ~amd64 for the first > > > time. On my previous x86 machine (some of) the boot process was > > > logged to /var/log/boot.msg. It doesn't do this on the new > > > machine and I can't for the life of me recall what setting > > > invoked this behaviour. Help?? > > > > /etc/conf.d/rc >=20 > Thanks for the reminder, walt. I have RC_BOOTLOG=3D"yes" stored there=20 > and had emerged app-admin/showconsole and don't have boot splash,=20 > but I still don't get /var/log/boot.msg. =20 If you are running ~amd64 you are probably using baselayout-2 and openrc. In that case the file you should be looking at is /etc/rc.conf an= d you should not use app-admin/showconsole. Just set RC_LOGGER to yes as shown in the comments. --=20 William Hubbs gentoo accessibility team lead williamh@gentoo.org --sdtB3X0nJg68CQEu Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkrh/VEACgkQblQW9DDEZTiHTgCfZO4hUUyjrXrxOMETlNw9ylzg dvYAoI8Wm9AP/Sb7++Y/TFSfjt2R9cM+ =FrTV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --sdtB3X0nJg68CQEu--