[Sussex] Re: Gentoo problems.

[Thomas Adam]

 --- "John D." <big-john at dsl.pipex.com> wrote: 

> I still can't find anywhere that the boot dialogue is kept one the
> system is 
> up and running, and it's made me think, that I don't know what the
> "syslog 
> daemon" is. It would be whatever gets installed (presumably) when

Syslog is what logs kernel messages, and system messages. Typically
messages can be sent to /dev/console which are then logged to
/var/log/messages. The kernel will also send them via the tkprint()
function.

As for init logging, I am not so sure of gentoo, but debian uses the
program: "bootlogd".

> during the install and I'm getting some dialogue that relates to fsck
> not 
> doing anything and not finding fsck.xfs - Is this important? and what
> would I 
> need to check/change ?

Yes, that means your kernel lacks support for it.

-- Thomas Adam

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