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

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Wed, 18 Jul 2012, Michael Biebl wrote:
> On 17.07.2012 23:52, Roger Leigh wrote:
> > We removed the bootlogs script because it was believed to be made
> > redundant by modern logging daemons.  However, this was not taking
> > into account the fact that even though the information is logged,
> > it is eventually rotated and lost.
> > 
> > I've assigned it to rsyslog as the default logging daemon, and
> > because Nicholas said that it was already doing this in Ubuntu.
> > We can certainly re-add the bootlogs script in initscripts if
> > this is still needed, and is the best place for it.  Otherwise,
> > I can file additional bugs against the other loggers.
> 
> I count 7 packages providing system-log-daemon.

And that's at least one too much.  sysklogd needs to die.

> It seems kinda odd to me, that we should duplicate that functionality in
> 7 packages. Don't you agree?

Yes.

> As this particular log file is about the actual boot process only, I
> kinda feel it doesn't belong into rsyslog but naturally fits into
> sysvinit/initscripts.

Agreed.  /var/log/dmesg (*with rotation*) is _extremely_ useful, I use
it at nearly every reboot due to a kernel upgrade (diff -u
/var/log/dmesg.0 /var/log/dmesg)...

Roger, I do think we should add it back in either initscripts or
sysvinit.

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  Henrique Holschuh