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 1N1OZx-0005Qm-1y for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 23 Oct 2009 18:09:33 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 34275E0205; Fri, 23 Oct 2009 18:09:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mk-outboundfilter-6.mail.uk.tiscali.com (mk-outboundfilter-6.mail.uk.tiscali.com [212.74.114.14]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9BAAE0205 for ; Fri, 23 Oct 2009 18:09:30 +0000 (UTC) X-Trace: 150176981/mk-outboundfilter-6.mail.uk.tiscali.com/PIPEX/$PIPEX-ACCEPTED/pipex-customers/81.86.110.137/None/peter.ruskin@dsl.pipex.com X-SBRS: None X-RemoteIP: 81.86.110.137 X-IP-MAIL-FROM: peter.ruskin@dsl.pipex.com X-SMTP-AUTH: aoyu93@dsl.pipex.com X-MUA: KMail/1.9.10 X-IP-BHB: Once X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Ar0EAM+O4UpRVm6J/2dsb2JhbACBUIMiw2SRIoEygjpTBIFdhkU X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.44,613,1249254000"; d="scan'208";a="150176981" X-IP-Direction: OUT Received: from 81-86-110-137.dsl.pipex.com (HELO nero.ruskin) ([81.86.110.137]) by smtp.pipex.tiscali.co.uk with ESMTP; 23 Oct 2009 19:09:17 +0100 From: Peter Ruskin Organization: Retired To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What happened to boot.msg? Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 19:09:17 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 References: <200910231518.22412.peter.ruskin@dsl.pipex.com> <200910231900.34627.peter.ruskin@dsl.pipex.com> In-Reply-To: <200910231900.34627.peter.ruskin@dsl.pipex.com> X-No-Archive: yes 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: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200910231909.17280.peter.ruskin@dsl.pipex.com> X-Archives-Salt: 53431943-cafd-4cfb-ae0e-e4ac975a948a X-Archives-Hash: 985a8df8bbec056a3b89d395032c051a On Friday 23 October 2009 19:00:34 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 > > Thanks for the reminder, walt. I have RC_BOOTLOG="yes" stored > there and had emerged app-admin/showconsole and don't have boot > splash, but I still don't get /var/log/boot.msg. Ahhh ... I found it. It's now stored in /var/log/rc.log. -- Peter ======================================================================== Gentoo Linux: Portage 2.2_rc46 kernel-2.6.31-gentoo-r3 AMD Phenom(tm) 9950 Quad-Core Processor gcc(Gentoo: 4.3.2-r3) KDE: 3.5.10 Qt: 3.3.8b ========================================================================