On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 10:13 AM, Robert kerplop@sbcglobal.net wrote:
Rod Rook wrote:
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Hi, Lee, The problem mentioned in the thread you referred to is usually caused by Network Manager, which has nothing to do with boot.log. Thanks to you anyway.
Perhaps he meant the thread beginning at http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2009-October/084836.html
My boot log looks like this:
[root@mavis log]# pwd /var/log [root@mavis log]# ls -l | grep boot -rw------- 1 root root 0 Nov 1 04:02 boot.log -rw------- 1 root root 0 Oct 25 04:02 boot.log.1 -rw------- 1 root root 0 Oct 18 04:02 boot.log.2 -rw------- 1 root root 0 Oct 11 04:02 boot.log.3 -rw------- 1 root root 0 Oct 4 04:02 boot.log.4 [root@mavis log]#The zero length most like indicates that there are no entries :-; yet we can see that the machine has been rebooted:
[root@mavis log]# grep boot messages* messages.2:Oct 22 11:39:13 mavis shutdown[26207]: shutting down for system reboot messages.4:Oct 5 16:17:33 mavis shutdown[19739]: shutting down for system reboot messages.4:Oct 5 16:27:07 mavis shutdown[4979]: shutting down for system reboot messages.4:Oct 5 16:33:25 mavis shutdown[4738]: shutting down for system reboot messages.4:Oct 10 15:01:46 mavis shutdown[11680]: shutting down for system reboot [root@mavis log]#Frankly, I can do very well without have boot.log at all but it seems that if we have it, it really should work! Mounting an old CentOS-4 disk, we see that it worked in CentOS 4:
[root@mavis log]# pwd /old-sys/var/log [root@mavis log]# ls -l | grep boot -rw------- 1 root root 107353 May 21 2007 boot.log -rw------- 1 root root 8867 May 20 2007 boot.log.1 -rw------- 1 root root 17265 May 13 2007 boot.log.2 -rw------- 1 root root 2224 May 6 2007 boot.log.3 -rw------- 1 root root 105 Apr 29 2007 boot.log.4 [root@mavis log]#It's interesting to note that my current /etc/syslog.conf and the one in the older version both contain the entry:
# Save boot messages also to boot.log local7.* /var/log/boot.logBeyond ferreting out those details, I am LOST.
Robert, I responded to Lee's statement which referred to
http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2009-October/083346.html It is all there if you follow the thread. Anyway, you agree with me that there is a bug or bugs in CentOS 5.4. As I said earlier, it is not a critical matter, but it does not instill confidence in me about CentOS distro. What other bugs are there? The interesting thing, at least to me, is that there seems to be conspiratorial silence about such bugs. Nobody wants to speak ill of their beloved distro?