/var/log/messages question

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Wed, 2011-06-01 at 05:22 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote:
> On Wed, 01 Jun 2011 11:51:18 +0930
> Tim wrote:
> 
> > You mean like the old boot.log file, that was going to be improved, and
> > was disabled in the meantime, then never was improved?
> 
> Look again :-). All the changes to boot graphically brought
> with them one good feature - there is a boot.log file now.

Very nice (except for the embedded control codes), but not really what I
meant. The idea was to have a new /var/log/messages file per boot (as an
alternative to placing a marker in the file on reboot).

Of course a valid counter-argument is that the file could grow very
large, which is why currently it's rolled over every week or so. Perhaps
a boot marker would be better after all.

poc