Bug 489838

Summary: empty /var/log/boot.log
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Reporter: mark meierjohann <rhbug>
Component: sysklogdAssignee: Peter Vrabec <pvrabec>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: BaseOS QE <qe-baseos-auto>
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Version: 5.2CC: bill.muller, rhbug
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Description mark meierjohann 2009-03-12 07:28:19 UTC
Description of problem:
/var/log/boot.log is empty, but still exists and is configured in syslog.conf. 
It is not possible to easily monitor start-up messages from init

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
sysklogd-1.4.1-44.el5

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. boot system
2. check /var/log/boot.log
  
Actual results:
file empty

Expected results:
file contains start-up messages from init


Additional info:
n/a

Comment 1 Peter Vrabec 2009-03-23 15:10:36 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 223446 ***

Comment 2 Bill Muller 2010-06-15 01:09:16 UTC
When I attempted to access bug 223446 I receive an access denied message stating "You are not authorized to access bug #223446."  If you are not going to allow everyone to view bug 223446 then I think you should reopen this entry.  I'm having a boot time problem that is difficult to debug without the log data, if I open a new bug will it also be marked as a duplicate to the bug I cannot access?