can't find startup messages since april in /var/log/messages using 2.4.18

can't find startup messages since april in /var/log/messages using 2.4.18

[Floydsmith]

For some strange reason I can't find where my "startup messagges" are being 
stored. I booted up twice this morning (052502) and only get only 1 line in 
/var/log/messages which is:
May 25 05:10:05 localhost syslogd 1.3-3: restart.

All boots since April 11 have only one such entry recorded. "dmesg" and a 
"vi" of "messages" show a full log journal for April 11.
I have did a "df" and all file sytems have free space.

Of course, the meesages do appear on the console at startup.

Any suggestions?

Floyd,

Re: can't find startup messages since april in /var/log/messages using 2.4.18

[Tony Hoyle]

On Sat, 25 May 2002 10:52:31 +0100, Floydsmith wrote:


> For some strange reason I can't find where my "startup messagges" are
> being stored. I booted up twice this morning (052502) and only get only
> 1 line in /var/log/messages which is: May 25 05:10:05 localhost syslogd
> 1.3-3: restart.
> 
> All boots since April 11 have only one such entry recorded. "dmesg" and
> a "vi" of "messages" show a full log journal for April 11. I have did a
> "df" and all file sytems have free space.
> 
> Of course, the meesages do appear on the console at startup.
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
Look in /var/log/messages.0

I have a machine that does this - exactly the same config as every other
machine but it insists of logging to the backup files.

Tony

Re: can't find startup messages since april in /var/log/messages using 2.4.18

[Andreas Roedl]

Hello!

Am Samstag, 25. Mai 2002 11:48 schrieb Floydsmith@aol.com:
> For some strange reason I can't find where my "startup messagges" are being
> stored. I booted up twice this morning (052502) and only get only 1 line in
> /var/log/messages which is:
> May 25 05:10:05 localhost syslogd 1.3-3: restart.
>
> All boots since April 11 have only one such entry recorded. "dmesg" and a
> "vi" of "messages" show a full log journal for April 11.
> I have did a "df" and all file sytems have free space.
>
> Of course, the meesages do appear on the console at startup.
>
> Any suggestions?

Check if klogd is running.


Andi

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Re: can't find startup messages since april in /var/log/messages using 2.4.18

[Der Herr Hofrat]

> 
> For some strange reason I can't find where my "startup messagges" are being 
> stored. I booted up twice this morning (052502) and only get only 1 line in 
> /var/log/messages which is:
> May 25 05:10:05 localhost syslogd 1.3-3: restart.
> 
> All boots since April 11 have only one such entry recorded. "dmesg" and a 
> "vi" of "messages" show a full log journal for April 11.
> I have did a "df" and all file sytems have free space.
> 
> Of course, the meesages do appear on the console at startup.
> 
> Any suggestions?
>
check your init scripts , you might have some entry/error in /etc/rc.d/boot (or where ever you init scripts lie that clears the buffer befor syslogd/klogd get started. (my /etc/init.d/boot does dmesg -c > /var/log/boot.msg so I get the relevant messages during operation without screens of boot up infos, no boot messages in /var/log/messages this way ither.)

hofrat