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Thor@Flanders

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Registered: 2010-08-27

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[SOLVED]Location of the logs

Hi,

Perhaps...not the right spot to put this question.

Saturday morning activity : find out how Linux actually does boot. For that I'd need to look into some logs files...like fsck, dmesg and what ever next.

Any ideas where these are? I glossed into /var/log but did not find the fsck (forced at bot every time) logs, for example...

In short: what manual do I study?

Tnx

Thor

Last edited by Thor@Flanders (2010-11-06 18:30:05)

thestinger

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Registered: 2010-01-23

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Re: [SOLVED]Location of the logs

Arch doesn't keep logs for boot, but /var/dmesg.log will get you the kernel log.

You can look through inittab, rc.sysinit and rc.multi to check out the arch boot process (other distros use upstart, etc. so they are quite different).

Last edited by thestinger (2010-11-06 16:27:54)

lagagnon

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Re: [SOLVED]Location of the logs

The boot messages aren't saved anywhere unless you do this:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Di … t_Messages

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Thor@Flanders

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Registered: 2010-08-27

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Re: [SOLVED]Location of the logs

Hi,

Thanks to both of you! The solution to have a peek at just what gets displayed (quickly - hence this question) is

Using flow control
This is basic management that applies to most terminal emulators, including virtual consoles (vc):

    * Press Ctrl+S to pause the output
    * And Ctrl+Q to resume it

... as picked up from the manual...
Initab, dmesg and the like will still be a challenge, but, hey, that's what the manual is for.

Cool, lemme tag this a solved - again, thanks, one more thing I learned!

Wellness

Thor

Last edited by Thor@Flanders (2010-11-06 18:29:46)