Boot-time messages under Fedora 16

[Alan Stern]

On Fri, 9 Dec 2011, Marko Vojinovic wrote:

> > On Friday 09 December 2011 12:18:30 Alan Stern wrote:
> > Under Fedora 14 and earlier, boot-time messages get stored in
> > /var/log/boot.log.  Things like "Welcome to Fedora" and "Starting
> > udev:" would appear there.
> > 
> > After I upgraded to Fedora 16, this no longer works.  Nothing gets
> > written to /var/log/boot.log.
> 
> Worksforme.
> 
> I guess there is something wrong with your installation, possibly due to 
> upgrading (mine is a clean install).

Interestingly, I installed Fedora 16 on two machines.  One was an 
upgrade and the other was a clean install.  On both systems, 
/var/log/boot.log has length 0 and hasn't changed since the 
installation.

The clean install was done mainly for testing purposes.  I didn't 
change the set of packages at all, just used the installer's "Graphical 
workstation" selection.  I haven't even run "yum update" on it.

Do you have any idea how your startup messages are getting into the 
system log?  I looked through the source code for systemd, and those 
messages really are sent directly to /dev/console.  They are not 
subject to any redirection through config settings, environment 
variables, or command-line overrides.

Alan Stern