On Tue, 2011-05-31 at 12:28 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote:
On Tue, 31 May 2011 10:17:56 -0600
Phil Meyer wrote:
> So in summary, if you see a syslog startup, followed within a few lines
> by the word ' Linux ', and what comes after that appear to be BIOS info,
> and that all these messages happen in the same second or two, you have
> found the top of the boot sequence.
All of which make my point that it would sure be a lot
simpler if there was merely a known string always printed
at the top :-).
At one time I relied on timestamp gaps till I was trying to
figure out the logs on a system where ntp was fighting
with something else and the time kept wildly swinging
on the running system.
Actually I think it would be simpler if each new boot simply started a
new log file.
poc