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 1R0ZqH-0007Vj-0o for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 05 Sep 2011 14:08:05 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B47E421C152; Mon, 5 Sep 2011 14:07:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mx.virtyou.com (mx.virtyou.com [94.23.166.77]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DF0AE066A for ; Mon, 5 Sep 2011 14:06:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from weird.wonkology.org (p5B2754B4.dip.t-dialin.net [91.39.84.180]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx.virtyou.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id E793D39A00B for ; Mon, 5 Sep 2011 16:06:32 +0200 (CEST) Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2011 16:06:29 +0200 From: Alex Schuster To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How can I re-read the "error" messages during boot? Message-ID: <20110905160629.19285a9f@weird.wonkology.org> In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.10 (GTK+ 2.24.5; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) 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=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: d485ac9363562756d2d56f96e9bf5365 Pandu Poluan writes: > I rebooted a Gentoo system, and as I watched the boot-up messages, > some "error"s appeared when it's starting the services. However, the > screen scrolled too damn fast for me to read them. > > Where can I find the logs on the services? If you set rc_logger="YES" in /etc/rc.conf, you can find the boot log in /var/log/rc.log. > Or is there a way to slow down booting? Try pressing Ctrl-S to stop the output. Ctrl-Q to continue. Wonko