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 1N1gTV-0000cJ-5u for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 24 Oct 2009 13:16:05 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1D4F0E08D2; Sat, 24 Oct 2009 13:16:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wlym.com (wlym.com [66.135.63.43]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D83EAE08D2 for ; Sat, 24 Oct 2009 13:16:03 +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 n9ODG1Ew013517 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Sat, 24 Oct 2009 08:16:03 -0500 Received: from ccs.covici.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ccs.covici.com (8.14.3/8.14.2) with ESMTP id n9ODFw3Z025457 for ; Sat, 24 Oct 2009 09:16:01 -0400 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What happened to boot.msg? In-reply-to: <20091023190033.GA2907@linux1> References: <200910231518.22412.peter.ruskin@dsl.pipex.com> <200910231900.34627.peter.ruskin@dsl.pipex.com> <20091023190033.GA2907@linux1> Comments: In-reply-to William Hubbs message dated "Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:00:33 -0500." X-Mailer: MH-E 8.2; nmh 1.3; GNU Emacs 23.1.1 Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2009 09:15:58 -0400 Message-ID: <25455.1256390158@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: 06ba73cb-5fd8-48fb-b747-0ca702be3203 X-Archives-Hash: f48c64a5982ffd95016f0967f6a5e66b William Hubbs wrote: > 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 > > > > 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. > > 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 and you > should not use app-admin/showconsole. > > Just set RC_LOGGER to yes as shown in the comments. I discovered that the reason its blank is there is something rotating the file, even though I don't have it in logrotate.conf or logrotate.d -- very strange. -- 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