[Sussex] Start up/Shutdown dialogue - Errors shown.

[John D.]

On Tue, 2004-12-07 at 15:07 +0000, Stephen Williams wrote:
> John,
> 
> For the initial start up log try this:
> 
> dmesg > /home/username/demsg.txt
> 
> For the init phase have a look in /var/log. The actual log file will
> depend on your system logger. For metalog, it should be in
> everything/current, for syslog-ng it should be in messages.
> 
> Steve W.
> 
> 
> On Tue, 2004-12-07 at 14:47 +0000, John D. wrote:
> > Hi list,
> > 
> > So of the list of error's that show up in my startup/shutdown dialogue,
> > If I can't find where all of them go (I've only managed to find the ones
> > that I posted before), is there any way that anyone knows of being able
> > to record them or cut and paste if I'm using scroll lock to look at the
> > messages? - seeing as how I'm trying to avoid having to write them long
> > hand, so I don't have any typos or spelling errors to add? :-}
> > 
> > regards
> > 
> > John D.

Looked at both dmesg and /var/log/messages (yes I opted for syslog-ng),
but from memory, there's some stuff that doesn't show in either file.

I suppose I'll have to resort to long hand, but just be very careful
when noting down and when retyping stuff! Bugger!

regards

John D.
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