[wplug] Debian boot messages -- where at??

[Brandon Kuczenski]

On Tue, 28 Jun 2005, Brian Sammon wrote:

>> I'm running a fresh install of Debian and I've noticed that the logs are
>> considerably less verbose than I am used to, and than I would like.  In
>> particular, I thought the entire content of the text displayed to the
>> console during bootup was displayed in /var/log/messages, but an error
>> message I saw flash by is not present in that (or any other) file.  Where
>> did it go?
>
> Have you tried the "dmesg" command?
>

Now -- I tried that and also looked at /var/log/dmesg, which I think is 
the same thing -- I realized that the error message I was seeing was a 
result of one of the init scripts, and not, strictly speaking, the boot 
process.  Is that output trapped anywhere?

-Brandon