F9 displays a startup log consisting of services started followed by status ([invariably [OK] ). But in the middle are ocasionally error messages (eg from privoxy ) which scroll by so fast that I am unable to read them.
Is there any way to view the startup log as either a normal user or as root to see the error messages?
Thanks.
On Thu, 2008-10-23 at 09:26 -0400, Dave Feustel wrote:
F9 displays a startup log consisting of services started followed by status ([invariably [OK] ). But in the middle are ocasionally error messages (eg from privoxy ) which scroll by so fast that I am unable to read them.
Is there any way to view the startup log as either a normal user or as root to see the error messages?
---- the entire boot sequence is logged in /var/log/messages (root only access)
Craig
On Thu, 2008-10-23 at 07:34 -0700, Craig White wrote:
On Thu, 2008-10-23 at 09:26 -0400, Dave Feustel wrote:
F9 displays a startup log consisting of services started followed by status ([invariably [OK] ). But in the middle are ocasionally error messages (eg from privoxy ) which scroll by so fast that I am unable to read them.
Is there any way to view the startup log as either a normal user or as root to see the error messages?
the entire boot sequence is logged in /var/log/messages (root only access)
Craig
No they are not. The results of demsg is not found there, neither are the results of starting init.d services.At least I can't find them. -- ======================================================================= Moon, n.: 1. A celestial object whose phase is very important to hackers. See PHASE OF THE MOON. 2. Dave Moon (MOON@MC). ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@sbcglobal.net
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 03:43:49PM -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote:
On Thu, 2008-10-23 at 07:34 -0700, Craig White wrote:
On Thu, 2008-10-23 at 09:26 -0400, Dave Feustel wrote:
F9 displays a startup log consisting of services started followed by status ([invariably [OK] ). But in the middle are ocasionally error messages (eg from privoxy ) which scroll by so fast that I am unable to read them.
Is there any way to view the startup log as either a normal user or as root to see the error messages?
the entire boot sequence is logged in /var/log/messages (root only access)
Craig
No they are not. The results of demsg is not found there, neither are the results of starting init.d services.At least I can't find them.
Examining /var/log/messages as root, I found an additional clue as to what the problem with privoxy is. (SELinux is interfering with privoxy).
Thanks for the tip!
On Thu, 23 Oct 2008 15:43:49 -0500 Aaron Konstam akonstam@sbcglobal.net wrote:
No they are not. The results of demsg is not found there, neither are the results of starting init.d services.At least I can't find them.
Yea, the only way I've ever been able to capture things like walkbacks from crashing services was to configure the boot to use a serial port and use a null modem to another computer where I could capture the boot messages in a terminal emulator (which is a royal pain).
I suppose another option might be to film the boot with a high resolution camera and play it back frame by frame to see what it said :-).
Tom Horsley wrote: ...
Yea, the only way I've ever been able to capture things like walkbacks from crashing services was to configure the boot to use a serial port and use a null modem to another computer where I could capture the boot messages in a terminal emulator (which is a royal pain).
If rhgb and quiet are removed from the boot line, can't you press "I" during the startup sequence and start each service at at time?
Mogens
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