Logging consol info to disk?

Logging consol info to disk?

[Doug Lawlor]

Hey everyone, I don't know where to ask this question this morning but I 
need to know how to log information displayed on the consol to a disk 
file.  What I am thinking about is something I used to do back in the old 
days of modems and programs in DOS like procomm and Telix.  Can boot 
messages be logged as well?

Thanks in advance,

Doug

Re: Logging consol info to disk?

[Charles Hallenbeck]

Hi Doug -

Look into the 'script' command ("man script") It might be just what you
are looking for.
Chuck

On Sat, 28 Jul 2001, Doug Lawlor wrote:

> Hey everyone, I don't know where to ask this question this morning but I 
> need to know how to log information displayed on the consol to a disk 
> file.  What I am thinking about is something I used to do back in the old 
> days of modems and programs in DOS like procomm and Telix.  Can boot 
> messages be logged as well?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Doug
> 
> 
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Re: Logging consol info to disk?

[Doug Lawlor]

Hello Chuck, Thanks for letting me know about the "script" command. I wish 
I new about this one when I was in university 10 years ago.  Could have 
made good use of it on a DEC ultrix box.  Now if I could figure out how to 
log boot-up messages that would be wonderful.

Doug

Re: Logging consol info to disk?

[Frank Carmickle]

Doug

There already logged for you.  Just type 'dmesg' and pipe it to your
favorite pager.  Personally I think less is more.

On Sat, 28 Jul 2001, Doug Lawlor wrote:

> Hello Chuck, Thanks for letting me know about the "script" command. I wish 
> I new about this one when I was in university 10 years ago.  Could have 
> made good use of it on a DEC ultrix box.  Now if I could figure out how to 
> log boot-up messages that would be wonderful.

-- 
     Frank Carmickle
phone:     412 761-9568
email:     frankiec@dryrose.com

Re: Logging consol info to disk?

[Gregory Nowak]

Hi Doug,

I don't know about the answer to your console question.
However, you can log output from boot messages into a file
called filename like so:
"dmesg >filename".
Hope this helps.
Greg


On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 02:51:54AM +0000, Doug Lawlor wrote:
> Hey everyone, I don't know where to ask this question this morning but I 
> need to know how to log information displayed on the consol to a disk 
> file.  What I am thinking about is something I used to do back in the old 
> days of modems and programs in DOS like procomm and Telix.  Can boot 
> messages be logged as well?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Doug
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup

Re: Logging consol info to disk?

[Buddy Brannan]

Someone's already covered this, no doubt, but you can see all your
bootup messages with
dmesg | more

You don't have to do anything, it's already done for you.
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ICQ: 36621210            | Then do something dumb before you die.

Re: Logging consol info to disk?

[Doug Lawlor]

Thanks for the info on the 'dmesg' command.  This is sure handy for 
tracking down any boot errors one may encounter.

Doug

At 11:02 AM 28/07/2001, you wrote:
>Doug
>
>There already logged for you.  Just type 'dmesg' and pipe it to your
>favorite pager.  Personally I think less is more.