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On Jul 23, 2005, at 12:11 , Eric Haszlakiewicz wrote:

> On Sat, Jul 23, 2005 at 03:42:55AM -0400, Matthew Mondor wrote:
>
>> There's always dmesg, /var/run/dmesg.boot and /var/log/ :) With
>> screen(1), I never found that such a scrolling buffer feature was
>> necessary, also.  Of course /dev/console is a special case which  
>> can get
>> kernel messages, but those are available in the dmesg buffer so  
>> are not
>> lost
>>
>
>     That's fine for kernel messages, but doesn't help at all with  
> output
> from rc.d.

The attached patch for rc "fixes" that issue by logging rc script  
output to a file on a tmpfs and the saving it to /var/log.

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     aew


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Index: rc
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/src/etc/rc,v
retrieving revision 1.162
diff -u -r1.162 rc
--- rc	4 Jan 2003 15:27:43 -0000	1.162
+++ rc	26 Jul 2005 01:02:45 -0000
@@ -35,13 +35,36 @@
 trap : INT
 trap "echo 'Boot interrupted.'; exit 1" QUIT
 
-date
+_now=`date`
+if checkyesno rc_logoutput; then
+	if [ ! -d /rclog ]; then
+		echo "error: /rclog non-existant, not logging rc output"
+		rc_logoutput=NO
+	else
+		/sbin/mount_mfs -b 4096 -f 512 -s 20480  -n 1024 -p 0755 swap /rclog
+		echo "rc start $_now"  >  /rclog/log
+	fi
+fi
+echo $_now
 
 files=$(rcorder -s nostart ${rc_rcorder_flags} /etc/rc.d/*)
 
-for _rc_elem in $files; do
-	run_rc_script $_rc_elem start
-done
+if checkyesno rc_logoutput; then
+	for _rc_elem in $files; do
+		run_rc_script $_rc_elem start >> /rclog/log 2>&1
+	done
+else
+	for _rc_elem in $files; do
+		run_rc_script $_rc_elem start
+	done
+fi
 
-date
+_now=`date`
+if checkyesno rc_logoutput; then
+	cat /rclog/log >> /var/log/rclog
+	umount /rclog
+	echo "rc done $_now" >>  /var/log/rclog
+fi
+
+echo $_now
 exit 0

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