From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B629138CA3 for ; Thu, 5 Mar 2015 10:00:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E6ED4E08C7; Thu, 5 Mar 2015 10:00:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8733E0841 for ; Thu, 5 Mar 2015 10:00:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from digimed.co.uk (shooty.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.8]) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPA id CF4D427008 for ; Thu, 5 Mar 2015 10:00:09 +0000 (GMT) Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2015 10:00:07 +0000 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] See bootup/poweroff screen? Message-ID: <20150305100007.0ff79dd6@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <54F81F07.1030704@gmail.com> References: <20150304215839.f23ab34e4ac7c30e4685c392@gmail.com> <54F7F4FE.5050902@gmail.com> <20150305030846.24cb9b0c54af337c17e3c863@gmail.com> <20150305082556.4aca38c9@digimed.co.uk> <54F81F07.1030704@gmail.com> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.11.1-72-g9cbe67 (GTK+ 2.24.26; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 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; boundary="Sig_/na5DNRmgP.orJY=D1mV1YuL"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: 989f152f-ecdd-4372-8c0a-ad8cb19b7de8 X-Archives-Hash: c339677cd9b98fb8c816bc84560b98a6 --Sig_/na5DNRmgP.orJY=D1mV1YuL Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 05 Mar 2015 03:16:55 -0600, Dale wrote: > > Of course it wasn't. Warnings about /var not being writeable are not > > going to be written to /var. > Yea, it won't catch everything. This is sort of designed for that point > where one log stops and the other hasn't started yet. This is usually > where dmesg stops and syslog and friends hasn't yet started. Of course, > if /var isn't mounted, well, it has no where to go. >=20 > Isn't those init thingys supposed to fix this sort of thing tho? Isn't > it supposed to store it in memory until /var is mounted and then dump > it? The combination of dracut and systemd means it all goes in the journal. The journal is kept in memory and then flushed to disk later in the boot process. journalctl is rather neat, being able to search both dmesg and system logs in one go, and apply various search criteria, is far more flexible than the alternatives. --=20 Neil Bothwick WWW: World Wide Wait --Sig_/na5DNRmgP.orJY=D1mV1YuL Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iEYEARECAAYFAlT4KScACgkQum4al0N1GQNyAACZAVP37K23SmPQ87HzvNG8uRm9 Lp0AoMcYzVhD/+D4szZgdLqouGHlsR2F =/Bwk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/na5DNRmgP.orJY=D1mV1YuL--