LinuxQuestions.org - initialisation log

Haven't done this myself but on researching the question because I was curious. I found that you basically need to add a logger line to the start and stop sections of each init script.

Examples I see in /etc/init.d/diskdump:

Code:

start_device() {

        local dev=$1



        errmsg=$($DISKDUMPCTL $dev 2>&1)

        ret=$?

        if [ $ret -ne 0 ]; then

                logger -p info -t $SERVICE_NAME "$errmsg"

        fi

}



stop_device() {

        local dev=$1



        errmsg=$($DISKDUMPCTL -u $dev 2>&1)

        if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then

                logger -p info -t $SERVICE_NAME "$errmsg"

        fi

}

In the above basicaly it is saying to only log the information if there is a non-zero exit status (meaning it failed). You'd want to simply get rid of the if, then, fi so that it logged everything.

The OK/FAILED actually comes from the functions (see the file invoked at start of init scripts) so to actually see the OK/FAILED itself you'd likely have to modify that function script.

Unfortunately I didn't find any examples of anyone doing this.

Interestingly on HP-UX they have it setup to go to an rc.log by default but they do it differently than Linux.