log of info displayed at startup

[Mark Vollmers]

Are there any logs that contain all of the info seen on the screen during startup? We have a dumb terminal setup to the server, and so I can see the startup info as it happens. What I am looking for is the info at the beginning of startup, where it talks about running fsck and the sanity checks and the memory. There was an error or something, but it scrolled past before I could read it. I checked the rc.log and the syslog, and it wasn't in there. Thanks.

Mark

[Felix J. Liu · Accepted solution]

I have a line printer connected to the back of my terminal
to print out all the messages scrolling on screen.

Dumb terminals are not *THAT* dumb if fairly equiped. :-)

Someties the command dmesg might help too.

[James R. Ferguson]

Mark:

Try:

# dmesg

# man 1M dmesg

...JRF...

[Sandor Horvath_2]

Hi !

Which HW do You have ?

In A and L servers You can activate LAN console in GSP on console. telnet log console and save file the xterm windows before try boot.

If You haven't try dmesg.

regards, Saa

[Mark Vollmers]

Thanks, all. That was the command that I was looking for!