[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#681639: initscripts: no longer updates /var/log/dmesg

[Roger Leigh]

On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 11:41:05PM +0100, Nyk Tarr wrote:
> Since the deletion of /etc/init.d/bootlogs, as far as I can see there is
> nothing updating /var/log/dmesg.
> 
> please re-instate bootlogs.

This should be handled by rsyslogd.  Is the content of /var/log/dmesg
not present in the standard system logs such as /var/log/kern.log?
This was removed because it was redundant, duplicating existing
functionality.  Is this not the case for your system?


Thanks,
Roger

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