/var/log/messages question

[Peter Gordon]

On 05/30/2011 03:36 PM, Tom Horsley wrote:
> If would be real convenient to have a known string to
> search for that always precedes the rest of the messages
> in a new boot.

You could try grep'ing for the Linux version string, always one of the
first several lines printed during kernel startup. Try searching for
something such as "[    0.000000] Linux version".

Alternatively, you could search for your logger's "start" message. On my
Fedora 15 install, the first messages on each boot are:

imklog 5.7.9, log source = /proc/kmsg started.
rsyslogd: [origin software="rsyslogd" swVersion="5.7.9" x-pid="872"
x-info="http://www.rsyslog.com"] start

Hope that helps.
-- 
Peter Gordon (codergeek42) <peter at thecodergeek.com>
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