Debian bug report logs - #1396
System Hangs!

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From: Raul Miller <moth@magenta.com>
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Subject: Re: Bug#1396: System Hangs!

I (foolishly) wrote:
   > si::sysinit:/etc/init.d/boot >>/var/log/boot
   > 
   > [I think that all log files in /var/log/ are automatically rotated?]

Bill Mitchell writes:
   I just rendered my system unbootable by trying this.
   (rummages for a disaster disk)

Ooops.  Well, um..

Change that to:

si::sysinit:/etc/init.d/boot 2>&1 | logger -s -p user.info -t /etc/init.d/boot

-- 
Raul

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Subject: Re: Bug#1396: System Hangs!
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Raul Miller writes:
> I recommend that (unless there's some simple way to get syslog to
> recognize these messages), the si: entry in /etc/inittab be changed to
> read:
> 
> si::sysinit:/etc/init.d/boot >>/var/log/boot
> 
> [I think that all log files in /var/log/ are automatically rotated?]

Nope, they are listed individually in /etc/cron.weekly/syslogd, and
a few other places.

Andrew

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From: mitchell@mdd.comm.mot.com (Bill Mitchell)
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Subject: Re: Bug#1396: System Hangs!

Raul Miller <moth@magenta.com>

> Dale Scheetz asks:
>    Well, absolutely nothing appears in the log after the last boot
>    message. BTW the major things that appear on the console but not in
>    the messages log is the output from the boot script and
>    run-parts. What do I do to get these messages into a file
>    somewhere?
> 
> si::sysinit:/etc/init.d/boot >>/var/log/boot
> 
> [I think that all log files in /var/log/ are automatically rotated?]

I just rendered my system unbootable by trying this.
(rummages for a disaster disk)

The redirection apparently fails because the root filesystem is mounted
readonly, and thish screws up the rest of the system startup.

If this can be made to work, I was thinking that "| tail -a /var/log/boot"
might be better than the simple redirection.

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Subject: Re: System Hangs!

Package: sysvinit
Version: 2.57b

Dale Scheetz asks:
   Well, absolutely nothing appears in the log after the last boot
   message. BTW the major things that appear on the console but not in
   the messages log is the output from the boot script and
   run-parts. What do I do to get these messages into a file
   somewhere?
   
I recommend that (unless there's some simple way to get syslog to
recognize these messages), the si: entry in /etc/inittab be changed to
read:

si::sysinit:/etc/init.d/boot >>/var/log/boot

[I think that all log files in /var/log/ are automatically rotated?]

-- 
Raul