Submitted by mborn on Mon, 17/01/2005 - 21:21.
( categories: Academia | Miscellaneous )

Peace!

While booting, the last line I have is marked with FAILED not OK. I could not read the message because it disappears in a second. Is there any possibility with which I can see the last line which appears while booting, so I can tell you about it. How may I have a screen shot of it (I know I am still booting and have not yet even strted the login process)?

Thank you for ur time,

M B


whirlpool's picture
Submitted by whirlpool on Mon, 17/01/2005 - 23:04.

hey this can be nothing important. like failing to brining up a network in case you are a modem user. try pressing the scroll lock key to pause the screen.


Conceptor's picture
Submitted by Conceptor on Tue, 18/01/2005 - 00:10.

The start up process executes some commands, if the command returns a 0 status -executed- the green OK will print on the screen during boot. If it returns other value status, a red FAILED will be printed.

results of these success and fail will also be logged into the system log, including error messages so you can correct the missing service(s). You can then view last entries 10 in this file by
tail /var/log/messages 
or
 tail -nXX /var/log/messages 
where XX is nom. of lines.

And this makes gnu/Linux have more reliability than other OSs.

Diaa Radwan.


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Submitted by Pronco on Tue, 18/01/2005 - 13:54.

Logrotate is a log rotation utility can be set to handle a log file daily

You can make logrotate runs as a daily cron job

I proposed using it instead of tailed the syslog /var/log/message


I used to be indecisive .. but now I'm not so sure


Alaa's picture
Submitted by Alaa on Tue, 18/01/2005 - 15:44.

log rotate is about compressing logs and keeping them in smaller chunks, how does it help finding which service failed to start?

IMO it has nothing to do with it.

cheers, Alaa


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