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Re: [SLUG] how do I log startup or where do I find the log?


On Fri, 2007-08-17 at 10:17 +1000, Marghanita da Cruz wrote:
> My knoppix/grup startup reports a couple of errors, which I have been happy to 
> live with until now... however, I would like to look into them but am not sure 
> how to capture the error messages before they fly by and KDE starts up.

It varies by distribution, but /var/log/messages and /var/log/syslog are
likely candidates. Quite a few services also log to their own files
under /var/log/ . Just generally poking around in there should prove
enlightening.

-- 
Pete