F20 System Wide Change: No Default Syslog

"Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" johannbg at gmail.com
Thu Jul 18 16:38:11 UTC 2013


On 07/18/2013 04:23 PM, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 03:54:49PM +0000, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote:
>>>> I've been able to do that using ext2fsd without much difficulty. I
>>>> used that method when I wasn't able to boot a rescue or live CD, and
>>>> the last resort would have been to pull the hard drive from the
>>>> machine and use a different computer to inspect it.   But if
>>>> /var/log/messages is not made available by default, then using ext2fsd
>>>> won't work, and other methods become more difficult also.
>>> I think this case is relatively obscure, but as with RHEL6, it would be nice
>>> to have a journal file viewer for Windows.
>> Why not read this files on another Fedora host ( or some other
>> distro that uses systemd )?
>> What's the reason for this hard dependency on Windows?
> I think the use case here is dual-boot system where the Fedora installation
> is somehow broken but the Windows boot works.
>

If you have physical access to the machine you should be able to access 
those journal files from within dracut shell.
If not that something we need to look at and solve I would think.

JBG


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