[Klug-general] Startup script

[J D Freeman]

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On Sun, Jun 08, 2008 at 10:12:33AM +0100, Mike Rentell wrote:
> G'day all,
> Pardon me for an apparently simple question, but could someone advise me  
> where I should look on a Mandriva setup to see the record of all those  
> messages you get when you first start Linux up in the morning (after  
> pressing Esc for verbose mode). One of the lines reported a failure to a  
> friend of mine but it whizzed up so quickly he didn't get the chance to  
> check it. It would be nice to go find it and check exactly what the  
> problem is.

dmesg should list alot of stuff, just run the command.

As for where else its logged, look in /etc/syslog.conf

If its not there, add something like:

*.* 		/var/log/messages

this will give you a breakdown of *everything* in /var/log/messages

HTH

J
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