/var/log/messages question

Tim ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au
Tue May 31 03:11:44 UTC 2011


On Mon, 2011-05-30 at 18:36 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote:
> Just for curiosity, why has no one ever arranged to
> log something like "Hey! I'm booting the system again!"
> as the very first line in that goes to /var/log/messages
> when the system is booting?

I used to do something like that back when I was still using another OS.
I modified the bootup script to add my own entry at the beginning.  You
could do the same, I don't think the script gets changed by updates that
often.

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[tim at localhost ~]$ uname -r
2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686

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