how to view logs of boot up?

koyi · 08-01-2003, 10:02 PM

I think I saw some error messages during boot up but they ran out of the screen too fast for my eyes to capture what they said. Is there a log file(or files?) which stores the messages showed during boot up?

Thanks.

jailbait · 08-01-2003, 10:32 PM

The boot messages will be in a file in the /var/log drectory. The most likely name for the boot log is /var/log/boot.msg

brice2nice · 08-01-2003, 10:51 PM

try the command dmesg or looks into your /var/log fliles

koyi · 08-02-2003, 02:43 AM

Thanks guys but I couldn't find the errors I saw in /var/log. A "ls" in that dir shows these files.

XFree86.0.log iptraf/ nfsd/ samba/ syslog
XFree86.0.log.old kdm.log nvidia-installer.log scripts/ wtmp
apache/ lastlog packages/ scrollkeeper.log
cron maillog proftpd.log secure
debug messages removed_packages/ setup/
faillog news/ removed_scripts/ spooler

I looked through all the text files but still couldn't find a clue. Some of them are binary files. Btw, I am using Slackware 9.0. And I think the errors are something to deal with loading modules on boot up. Any ideas?

Thanks again.

max2003 · 08-02-2003, 03:32 AM

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