/var/log/messages question

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Tue, 2011-05-31 at 12:28 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote:
> On Tue, 31 May 2011 10:17:56 -0600
> Phil Meyer wrote:
> 
> > So in summary, if you see a syslog startup, followed within a few lines 
> > by the word ' Linux ', and what comes after that appear to be BIOS info, 
> > and that all these messages happen in the same second or two, you have 
> > found the top of the boot sequence.
> 
> All of which make my point that it would sure be a lot
> simpler if there was merely a known string always printed
> at the top :-).
> 
> At one time I relied on timestamp gaps till I was trying to
> figure out the logs on a system where ntp was fighting
> with something else and the time kept wildly swinging
> on the running system.

Actually I think it would be simpler if each new boot simply started a
new log file.

poc