Re: security check output, kernel log message

From: Ben Smithurst (ben@FreeBSD.org)
Date: 06/28/01 

Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 20:34:57 +0100
From: Ben Smithurst <ben@FreeBSD.org>
To: Joe Gross <jgross@stimpy.net>

Joe Gross wrote:

> (quickly drifting OT)
>
>> From /etc/rc:
>
> # Keep a copy of the boot messages around
> dmesg >/var/run/dmesg.boot
>
> Unfortunately in my case the dmesg buffer is too small so I miss all the
> meaty early boot messages. Is this a settable option or is there some other
> way to have all the boot messages saved without a serial console?

This might be what you want, I've never tried it though:

# Size of the kernel message buffer. Should be N * pagesize.
options MSGBUF_SIZE=40960 

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