I believe some distributions dump the contents of "dmesg" (which displays the contents of the kernel ring buffer) into syslog once it is started.... is that what you're thinking of?

Regards,

Scott.



From:        "Patrick H." <syslogng@feystorm.net>
To:        syslog-ng@lists.balabit.hu
Date:        15/09/2011 13:59
Subject:        [syslog-ng] buffer logs from initramfs until syslog-ng starts
Sent by:        syslog-ng-bounces@lists.balabit.hu

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So I'm trying to find a way to buffer logs from extremely early in the boot process (from when the initramfs is still running), and then dump them to syslog-ng once it starts. Has anyone done anything similar?

The only real idea that comes to mind is to use busybox's syslogd and have it use a circular buffer, then configure syslog-ng with a program source that reads the buffer and then terminates the the daemon (something like 'logread ; pkill -x syslogd &>/dev/null'), and set follow_freq to 0. Whether this will work or not, I dont know as I've never played with program sources. Also a problem I see with this is that the busybox syslogd would need to be killed before syslog-ng tries to open /dev/log and /proc/kmsg, but I'm not sure how to go about that.

I do seem to recall some other utility I've ran across in my travels that is designed for this exact purpose, in that it buffers syslog messages during boot, then dumps its buffer once the main syslog daemon has started and terminates, but I cant remember what its called (and google is failing me).

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