I am specifically on SuSE 9.3. I did a quick search on web and it was looking lke you have to enable the permanent storage of the bootup log. Can someone please clarify.
In /var/log you will find:
boot.msg
messages
AFAIK they have always been in /var/log
acomber wrote:
> I am specifically on SuSE 9.3. I did a quick search on web and it was
> looking lke you have to enable the permanent storage of the bootup log.
> Can someone please clarify.
wow…that is an old version…i don’t exactly remember how it was
done on back then, but have a look in /var/log where you might find
boot.log, boot.msg and several other logs some of which may also have
archived history right there…
as far as log management (compacting, archiving or deleting): yes,
each individual administrator is free to set that up exactly the way
they want/need it via logrotate…
i don’t remember how 9.3 was default installed, but would be
astonished to learn that the default install would keep all/any logs
forever…i think many were thrown out when 30 days old, or so…
just a thought: you might consider the security implications of
running a system unpatched for the last x years…
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palladium