rc.log missing shutdown info

[Frank Maykis]

My /etc/rc.log and /etc/rc.log.old on both 10.X and 11.X systems are not logging shutdown info only start up info in both. I think the machines may have issues during shutdown but how do check this?

[Sridhar Bhaskarla]

Hi,

Did you reboot the servers or did a 'shutdown'?. If it is a shutdown, then you should see the entries at the end of /etc/rc.log.old file. RC scripts won't run
during the reboot so you won't find that information in that case.

-Sri

[David Burgess]

Anything in /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log or OLDsyslog.log

Regards,

Dave.

[Jeff Schussele]

Hi Frank,

AFAIK, only start scripts log into /etc/rc.log

Rgds,
Jeff

[Sundar_7]

During the shutdown the system logs the info in /etc/rc.log and when the system comes back again, this file is moved to /etc/rc.log.old.

are u executing reboot or shutdown - if u reboot then kill scripts are not executed and thus no logging in /etc/rc.log - that is the only thing I could think of :-)