This was broken in rhel5. I think all flavors. Just google 'rhel5 boot.log empty'. It is fixed in rhel6 with the addition of plymouth. >From the rhel5.3 releasenotes: Boot-time logging to /var/log/boot.log is not available in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3 On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 1:14 PM, Cleiton Cipriani < cleitoncipriani at tpa.com.br> wrote: > > Keith, i have not physical access to the server, so its not possible to do > that commands! > > Cleiton > > > To: centos at centos.org > > From: kkeller at wombat.san-francisco.ca.us > > Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2012 11:47:33 -0700 > > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Boot.log Issue > > > > On 2012-08-10, Cleiton Cipriani <cleitoncipriani at tpa.com.br> wrote: > > > > > > I everybody... i need help to enable boot.log at CentOS 5... i have a > old server running for a few months, and sometimes when system boots up, a > can see FAIL status, but the screen scrools fast and i cant determine which > service can not boot up properly... > > > > You should be able to use ctrl-s to stop the flow of text, then use page > > up/down to view the actual messages; when done, ctrl-q (IIRC) will > > resume output to the terminal. > > > > --keith > > > > -- > > kkeller at wombat.san-francisco.ca.us > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > CentOS mailing list > > CentOS at centos.org > > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- -MichaelC