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 1N1gLZ-00080r-TT for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 24 Oct 2009 13:07:54 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A322BE08CA; Sat, 24 Oct 2009 13:07:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wlym.com (wlym.com [66.135.63.43]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A15BE08CA for ; Sat, 24 Oct 2009 13:07:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ccs.covici.com (pool-71-171-100-78.clppva.fios.verizon.net [71.171.100.78]) (authenticated bits=128) by wlym.com (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-5) with ESMTP id n9OD7nFX013305 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Sat, 24 Oct 2009 08:07:51 -0500 Received: from ccs.covici.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ccs.covici.com (8.14.3/8.14.2) with ESMTP id n9OD7ki0025363 for ; Sat, 24 Oct 2009 09:07:49 -0400 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What happened to boot.msg? In-reply-to: <200910231909.17280.peter.ruskin@dsl.pipex.com> References: <200910231518.22412.peter.ruskin@dsl.pipex.com> <200910231900.34627.peter.ruskin@dsl.pipex.com> <200910231909.17280.peter.ruskin@dsl.pipex.com> Comments: In-reply-to Peter Ruskin message dated "Fri, 23 Oct 2009 19:09:17 +0100." X-Mailer: MH-E 8.2; nmh 1.3; GNU Emacs 23.1.1 Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2009 09:07:46 -0400 Message-ID: <25362.1256389666@ccs.covici.com> From: covici@ccs.covici.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 X-Archives-Salt: e2b58d1f-fff8-4347-8afc-288af97ee940 X-Archives-Hash: 2ab6009365efb8e2e3b2f91cdc74a807 Peter Ruskin wrote: > 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. However, mine is an empty file even though I have rc_logger="yes" -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici covici@ccs.covici.com