After installing RedHat 6.0 the boot messages are directed to /var/log/boot.log via syslog(local7.*). In order to change the direction of these messages a user would need to change /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions so that the variable $INITLOG_ARGS contains --facility and --priority. Unfortunately the change does not work properly because there are lines in /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit and /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions that call initlog without use of the variable. Below are the modified rc.sysinit and functions files; rc.sysinit ---------- #!/bin/sh # # /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit - run once at boot time # # Taken in part from Miquel van Smoorenburg's bcheckrc. # # Rerun ourselves through initlog if [ -z "$IN_INITLOG" ]; then [ -f /sbin/initlog ] && exec /sbin/initlog $INITLOG_ARGS - r /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit fi # Set the path PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin export PATH # Read in config data. if [ -f /etc/sysconfig/network ]; then . /etc/sysconfig/network else NETWORKING=no HOSTNAME=localhost fi # Source functions . /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions # Fix console loglevel /sbin/loglevel $LOGLEVEL # Load keymap KEYMAP= if [ -f /etc/sysconfig/console/default.kmap ]; then KEYMAP=/etc/sysconfig/console/default.kmap else . /etc/sysconfig/keyboard if [ -n "$KEYTABLE" -a -d "/usr/lib/kbd/keymaps" ]; then KEYMAP=$KEYTABLE fi fi if [ -n "$KEYMAP" ]; then # Since this takes in/output from stdin/out, we can't use initlog echo -n "Loading default keymap" loadkeys $KEYMAP < /dev/tty0 > /dev/tty0 2>/dev/null && \ success "Loading default keymap" || failure "Loading default keymap" echo fi # Load system font if [ -x /sbin/setsysfont ]; then action "Setting default font" /sbin/setsysfont fi # Start up swapping. action "Activating swap partitions" swapon -a # Set the hostname. action "Setting hostname ${HOSTNAME}" hostname ${HOSTNAME} # Set the NIS domain name if [ -n "$NISDOMAIN" ]; then action "Setting NIS domain name $NISDOMAIN" domainname $NISDOMAIN else domainname "" fi if [ -f /fsckoptions ]; then fsckoptions=`cat /fsckoptions` else fsckoptions= fi if [ -f /forcefsck ]; then fsckoptions="-f $fsckoptions" fi _RUN_QUOTACHECK=0 if [ ! -f /fastboot ]; then STRING="Checking root filesystem" echo $STRING initlog $INITLOG_ARGS -c "fsck -T -a $fsckoptions /" rc=$? if [ "$rc" = "0" ]; then success "$STRING" echo elif [ "$rc" = "1" ]; then passed "$STRING" echo fi # A return of 2 or higher means there were serious problems. if [ $rc -gt 1 ]; then failure "$STRING" echo echo echo "*** An error occurred during the file system check." echo "*** Dropping you to a shell; the system will reboot" echo "*** when you leave the shell." PS1="(Repair filesystem) \#"; export PS1 sulogin echo "Unmounting file systems" umount -a mount -n -o remount,ro / echo "Automatic reboot in progress." reboot elif [ "$rc" = "1" ]; then _RUN_QUOTACHECK=1 fi fi # check for arguments mount -t proc /proc /proc if grep -i nopnp /proc/cmdline >/dev/null ; then PNP= else PNP=yes fi # set up pnp if [ -x /sbin/isapnp -a -f /etc/isapnp.conf ]; then if [ -n "$PNP" ]; then action "Setting up ISA PNP devices" /sbin/isapnp /etc/isapnp.conf else action "Skipping ISA PNP configuration at users request" /bin/true fi fi # Remount the root filesystem read-write. action "Remounting root filesystem in read-write mode" mount -n -o remount,rw / # Update quotas if fsck was run on /. if [ X"$_RUN_QUOTACHECK" = X1 -a -x /sbin/quotacheck ]; then action "Checking root filesystem quotas" /sbin/quotacheck -v / fi # XXX Disabled to avoid complaints on root later with quotaon -a #if [ -x /sbin/quotaon ]; then # action "Turning on user and group quotas for root filesystem" /sbin/quotaon / #fi if [ -n "$IN_INITLOG" ]; then IN_INITLOG= fi if [ ! -f /etc/HOSTNAME ]; then echo ${HOSTNAME} > /etc/HOSTNAME fi # Clear mtab >/etc/mtab # Enter root and /proc into mtab. mount -f / mount -f /proc if ! grep -i nomodules /proc/cmdline >/dev/null && [ - f /proc/ksyms ]; then USEMODULES=y else USEMODULES= fi # Our modutils don't support it anymore, so we might as well remove # the link. rm -f /lib/modules/preferred rm -f /lib/modules/default if [ -x /sbin/depmod -a -n "$USEMODULES" ]; then # Get ready for kmod if module support in the kernel if [ -z `uname -r | grep "-"` ]; then # we're using a new kernel, no preferred needed mver=`uname -r` else ktag="`cat /proc/version`" mtag=grep -l "$ktag" /lib/modules/*/.rhkmvtag 2> /dev/null if [ -n "$mtag" ]; then mver=echo $mtag | sed -e 's,/lib/modules/,,' - e 's,/.rhkmvtag,,' -e 's,[ ].*$,,' fi if [ -n "$mver" ]; then ln -sf /lib/modules/$mver /lib/modules/default fi fi [ -n "$mver" -a -f "/boot/module-info-$mver" ] && ln - sf /boot/module-info-$mver /boot/module-info [ -n "$mver" -a -f "/boot/System.map-$mver" ] && ln - sf /boot/System.map-$mver /boot/System.map action "Finding module dependencies" depmod -a fi # load sound modules if [ -n "$USEMODULES" ]; then if grep -s -q "^alias sound" /etc/conf.modules ; then action "Loading sound module" modprobe sound fi if grep -s -q "^alias midi" /etc/conf.modules ; then action "Loading midi module" modprobe midi fi fi if [ -f /proc/sys/kernel/modprobe ]; then if [ -n "$USEMODULES" ]; then echo "/sbin/modprobe" > /proc/sys/kernel/modprobe else echo "" > /proc/sys/kernel/modprobe fi fi # Add raid devices if [ -f /proc/mdstat -a -f /etc/raidtab -a - x /sbin/raidadd ]; then action "Starting up RAID devices" raidadd -a rc=$? if [ $rc = 0 ]; then raidrun -a rc=$? fi # A non-zero return means there were problems. if [ $rc -gt 0 ]; then echo echo echo "*** An error occurred during the RAID startup" echo "*** Dropping you to a shell; the system will reboot" echo "*** when you leave the shell." PS1="(RAID Repair) \#"; export PS1 sulogin echo "Unmounting file systems" umount -a mount -n -o remount,ro / echo "Automatic reboot in progress." reboot fi fi # Check filesystems if [ ! -f /fastboot ]; then STRING="Checking filesystems" echo $STRING initlog $INITLOG_ARGS -c "fsck -T -R -A -a $fsckoptions" rc=$? if [ "$rc" = "0" ]; then success "$STRING" echo elif [ "$rc" = "1" ]; then passed "$STRING" echo fi # A return of 2 or higher means there were serious problems. if [ $rc -gt 1 ]; then failure "$STRING" echo echo echo "*** An error occurred during the file system check." echo "*** Dropping you to a shell; the system will reboot" echo "*** when you leave the shell." PS1="(Repair filesystem) \#"; export PS1 sulogin echo "Unmounting file systems" umount -a mount -n -o remount,ro / echo "Automatic reboot in progress." reboot elif [ "$rc" = "1" -a -x /sbin/quotacheck ]; then action "Checking filesystem quotas" /sbin/quotacheck -v -R -a fi fi # Mount all other filesystems (except for NFS and /proc, which is already # mounted). Contrary to standard usage, # filesystems are NOT unmounted in single user mode. action "Mounting local filesystems" mount -a -t nonfs,smbfs,ncpfs,proc if [ -x /sbin/quotaon ]; then action "Turning on user and group quotas for local filesystems" /sbin/quotaon -a fi # Clean out /etc. rm -f /etc/mtab~ /fastboot /fsckoptions /forcefsck >/var/run/utmp touch /var/log/wtmp chgrp utmp /var/run/utmp /var/log/wtmp chmod 0664 /var/run/utmp /var/log/wtmp # Delete pam_console lock and refcount files rm -f /var/lock/console.lock rm -f /var/lock/console/* # Delete UUCP lock files. rm -f /var/lock/LCK* # Delete stale subsystem files. rm -f /var/lock/subsys/* # Delete stale pid files rm -f /var/run/*.pid # Delete X locks rm -f /tmp/.X*-lock # Delete Postgres sockets rm -f /tmp/.s.PGSQL.* # Set the system clock. ARC=0 UTC=0 if [ -f /etc/sysconfig/clock ]; then . /etc/sysconfig/clock # convert old style clock config to new values if [ "${CLOCKMODE}" = "GMT" ]; then UTC=true elif [ "${CLOCKMODE}" = "ARC" ]; then ARC=true fi fi CLOCKDEF="" if [ -x /sbin/hwclock ]; then CLOCKFLAGS="--hctosys" CLOCK=/sbin/hwclock $CLOCK --adjust else CLOCKFLAGS="-a" CLOCK=/sbin/clock fi case "$UTC" in yes|true) CLOCKFLAGS="$CLOCKFLAGS -u"; CLOCKDEF="$CLOCKDEF (utc)"; ;; esac if [ "$CLOCK" = "/sbin/clock" ]; then case "$ARC" in yes|true) CLOCKFLAGS="$CLOCKFLAGS -A"; CLOCKDEF="$CLOCKDEF (arc)"; ;; esac fi $CLOCK $CLOCKFLAGS action "Setting clock $CLOCKDEF: `date`" date # Right, now turn on swap in case we swap to files. swapon -a >/dev/null 2>&1 action "Enabling swap space" /bin/true # Initialize the serial ports. if [ -f /etc/rc.d/rc.serial ]; then . /etc/rc.d/rc.serial fi # Load modules (for backward compatibility with VARs) if [ -f /etc/rc.d/rc.modules ]; then /etc/rc.d/rc.modules fi # If a SCSI tape has been detected, load the st module unconditionally # since many SCSI tapes don't deal well with st being loaded and unloaded if [ -f /proc/scsi/scsi ] && cat /proc/scsi/scsi | grep - q 'Type: Sequential-Access' 2>/dev/null ; then if cat /proc/devices | grep -qv ' 9 st' ; then if [ -n "$USEMODULES" ] ; then # Try to load the module. If it fails, ignore it... modprobe st 2>/dev/null fi fi fi # Set preferred X display manager link preferred= if [ -f /etc/sysconfig/desktop ]; then if [ -n "`grep GNOME /etc/sysconfig/desktop`" ]; then preferred=gdm elif [ -n "`grep KDE /etc/sysconfig/desktop`" ]; then preferred=kdm elif [ -n "`grep AnotherLevel /etc/sysconfig/desktop`" ]; then preferred=xdm fi fi if [ -n "$preferred" ] && which $preferred >/dev/null 2>&1; then ln -snf ../..`which $preferred` /etc/X11/prefdm else if [ ! -L /etc/X11/prefdm ]; then if which gdm >/dev/null 2>&1; then ln -snf ../..`which gdm` /etc/X11/prefdm elif which kdm >/dev/null 2>&1; then ln -snf ../..`which kdm` /etc/X11/prefdm elif which xdm >/dev/null 2>&1; then ln -snf ../..`which xdm` /etc/X11/prefdm fi fi fi # Now that we have all of our basic modules loaded and the kernel going, # let's dump the syslog ring somewhere so we can find it later dmesg > /var/log/dmesg functions ---------- #!/bin/sh # # functions This file contains functions to be used by most or all # shell scripts in the /etc/init.d directory. # # Version: @(#) /etc/init.d/functions 1.01 26-Oct-1993 # # Author: Miquel van Smoorenburg, <miquels.mugnet.org> # Hacked by: Greg Galloway and Marc Ewing # # First set up a default search path. export PATH="/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin" # Get a sane screen width [ -z "$COLUMNS" ] && COLUMNS=80 # Read in our configuration if [ -z "$BOOTUP" ]; then if [ -f /etc/sysconfig/init ]; then . /etc/sysconfig/init else # This all seem confusing? Look in /etc/sysconfig/init, # or in /usr/doc/initscripts-*/sysconfig.txt BOOTUP=color RES_COL=60 MOVE_TO_COL="echo -en \\033[300C\\033[$[${COLUMNS}- ${RES_COL}]D" SETCOLOR_SUCCESS="echo -en \\033[1;32m" SETCOLOR_FAILURE="echo -en \\033[1;31m" SETCOLOR_WARNING="echo -en \\033[1;33m" SETCOLOR_NORMAL="echo -en \\033[0;39m" LOGLEVEL=1 fi fi if [ "$BOOTUP" != "verbose" ]; then INITLOG_ARGS="-q" else INITLOG_ARGS= fi # A function to start a program. daemon() { # Test syntax. gotbase= case $1 in '') echo '$0: Usage: daemon [+/-nicelevel] {program}' return 1;; --check) shift base=$1 gotbase="yes" shift nicelevel=0 ;; -*|+*) nicelevel=$1 shift;; *) nicelevel=0;; esac # Save basename. [ -z $gotbase ] && base=`basename $1` # See if it's already running. pid=`pidofproc $base` [ -n "$pid" ] && ps h $pid >/dev/null 2>&1 && return # make sure it doesn't core dump anywhere; while this could mask # problems with the daemon, it also closes some security problems ulimit -c 0 # Echo daemon [ "$BOOTUP" = "verbose" ] && echo -n " $base" # And start it up. nice -n $nicelevel initlog $INITLOG_ARGS -c "$*" && success "$base startup" || failure "$base startup" } # A function to stop a program. killproc() { # Test syntax. if [ $# = 0 ]; then echo "Usage: killproc {program} [signal]" return 1 fi notset=0 # check for second arg to be kill level if [ "$2" != "" ] ; then killlevel=$2 else notset=1 killlevel="-9" fi # Save basename. base=`basename $1` # Find pid. pid=`pidofproc $base` # Kill it. if [ "$pid" != "" ] ; then [ $BOOTUP = "verbose" ] && echo -n "$base " if [ "$notset" = "1" ] ; then if ps h $pid>/dev/null 2>&1; then # TERM first, then KILL if not dead kill -TERM $pid usleep 100000 if ps h $pid >/dev/null 2>&1 ; then sleep 1 if ps h $pid >/dev/null 2>&1 ; then sleep 3 if ps h $pid >/dev/null 2>&1 ; then kill -KILL $pid fi fi fi fi ps h $pid >/dev/null 2>&1 && failure "$base shutdown" || success "$base shutdown" # use specified level only else if ps h $pid >/dev/null 2>&1; then kill $killlevel $pid && success "$base $killlevel" || failure "$base $killlevel" fi fi else failure "$base shutdown" fi # Remove pid file if any. if [ "$notset" = "1" ]; then rm -f /var/run/$base.pid fi } # A function to find the pid of a program. pidofproc() { # Test syntax. if [ $# = 0 ] ; then echo "Usage: pidofproc {program}" return 1 fi # First try "/var/run/*.pid" files if [ -f /var/run/$1.pid ] ; then pid=`head -1 /var/run/$1.pid` if [ "$pid" != "" ] ; then echo $pid return 0 fi fi # Next try "pidof" pid=`pidof $1` if [ "$pid" != "" ] ; then echo $pid return 0 fi # Finally try to extract it from ps ps ax | awk 'BEGIN { prog=ARGV[1]; ARGC=1 } { if ((prog == $5) || (("(" prog ")") == $5) || (("[" prog "]") == $5) || ((prog ":") == $5)) { print $1 ; exit 0 } }' $1 } status() { # Test syntax. if [ $# = 0 ] ; then echo "Usage: status {program}" return 1 fi # First try "pidof" pid=`pidof $1` if [ "$pid" != "" ] ; then echo "$1 (pid $pid) is running..." return 0 else pid=`ps ax | awk 'BEGIN { prog=ARGV[1]; ARGC=1 } { if ((prog == $5) || (("(" prog ")") == $5) || (("[" prog "]") == $5) || ((prog ":") == $5)) { print $1 ; exit 0 } }' $1` if [ "$pid" != "" ] ; then echo "$1 (pid $pid) is running..." return 0 fi fi # Next try "/var/run/*.pid" files if [ -f /var/run/$1.pid ] ; then pid=`head -1 /var/run/$1.pid` if [ "$pid" != "" ] ; then echo "$1 dead but pid file exists" return 1 fi fi # See if /var/lock/subsys/$1 exists if [ -f /var/lock/subsys/$1 ]; then echo "$1 dead but subsys locked" return 2 fi echo "$1 is stopped" return 3 } echo_success() { [ "$BOOTUP" = "color" ] && $MOVE_TO_COL echo -n "[ " [ "$BOOTUP" = "color" ] && $SETCOLOR_SUCCESS echo -n "OK" [ "$BOOTUP" = "color" ] && $SETCOLOR_NORMAL echo -n " ]" return 0 } echo_failure() { [ "$BOOTUP" = "color" ] && $MOVE_TO_COL echo -n "[" [ "$BOOTUP" = "color" ] && $SETCOLOR_FAILURE echo -n "FAILED" [ "$BOOTUP" = "color" ] && $SETCOLOR_NORMAL echo -n "]" return 1 } echo_passed() { [ "$BOOTUP" = "color" ] && $MOVE_TO_COL echo -n "[" [ "$BOOTUP" = "color" ] && $SETCOLOR_WARNING echo -n "PASSED" [ "$BOOTUP" = "color" ] && $SETCOLOR_NORMAL echo -n "]" return 1 } # Log that something succeeded success() { if [ -z "$IN_INITLOG" ]; then initlog $INITLOG_ARGS -n $0 -s "$1" -e 1 else echo "-n $0 -s \"$1\" -e 1" >&21 fi [ "$BOOTUP" != "verbose" ] && echo_success return 0 } # Log that something failed failure() { rc=$? if [ -z "$IN_INITLOG" ]; then initlog $INITLOG_ARGS -n $0 -s "$1" -e 2 else echo "-n $0 -s \"$1\" -e 2" >&21 fi [ "$BOOTUP" != "verbose" ] && echo_failure return $rc } # Log that something passed, but may have had errors. Useful for fsck passed() { rc=$? if [ -z "$IN_INITLOG" ]; then initlog $INITLOG_ARGS -n $0 -s "$1" -e 1 else echo "-n $0 -s \"$1\" -e 1" >&21 fi [ "$BOOTUP" != "verbose" ] && echo_passed return $rc } # Run some action. Log its output. action() { STRING=$1 echo -n "$STRING " shift initlog $INITLOG_ARGS -c "$*" && success "$STRING" || failure "$STRING" rc=$? echo return $rc } # Confirm whether we really want to run this service confirm() { echo -n "Start service $1 (Y)es/(N)o/(C)ontinue? [Y] " read answer case $answer in y|Y|"") return 0 ;; c|C) return 2 ;; n|N) return 1 ;; *) confirm $1 return $? ;; esac }
fixed in initscripts-4.21, except for the fsck calls...