boot messages

[Jay Nugent]

Greetings,

On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, Jerry McBride wrote:

> On Thu, 31 Oct 2002 15:48:47 -0700 Andrew Mathews
> <andrew_mathews at linux-works.org> wrote:
> 
> > Tony Alfrey wrote:
> > > Hi.
> > > 
> > > I want to put little messages in the various boot scripts (like in 
> > > /etc/rc.d/rc.modules) so that I can track the boot process.  I would 
> > > like these messages to appear someplace where I can review them, such 
> > > as in dmesg.  So far, I have simply put
> > > echo "blah blah"
> > > into scripts and the messages appear on the screen during boot-up but 
> > > not in either dmesg (or /var/log/messages) which is where I would like 
> > > them.
> > > Does someone know how to do this?  I would really appreciate a hint on 
> > > this one.
> > > Thanks much in advance!
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
> > Try:
> > echo "blah blah" >> /var/log/boot.log or
> > echo "blah blah" >> /var/log/messages
> >
> 
> You can send it to an unused console via echo "blah" > /dev/tty3

   To log a message into /var/log/messages you can use 'logger'.

   Like this:

echo "Resetting time from time.nist.gov..."
/usr/bin/logger -i -t rc.local "Resetting time from time.nist.gov..."
/usr/bin/rdate -s time.nist.gov   


   It uses the syslogd utility, lets you say what the script or process is
that caused the logging, and specify a "text" string to place in the log.
See the manpage for the specifics.

   Enjoy!
      --- Jay
             
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