Bug#372663: [Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#372663: shutdown logger like bootlogger

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Sun, 11 Jun 2006, Dan Jacobson wrote:
> All this work on bootlogging... but what about logging of the shutdown
> sequence? Also important.

This is extremely non-trivial for the late shutdown sequence (after halt is
called).

And where would you store that information, anyway?   The system usually (as
in if nothing untoward is happening) has no read-write storage during the
last steps of shutdown.

> I hereby wish for a shutdownlogger.

FYI, you have one already.  Redirect the console to a serial port, parallel
port or network port, and log that using another box (or let a printer dump
it to paper).

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