diff options
| author | William Hubbs <w.d.hubbs@gmail.com> | 2015-10-21 14:01:57 -0500 |
|---|---|---|
| committer | William Hubbs <w.d.hubbs@gmail.com> | 2015-10-21 14:04:28 -0500 |
| commit | ee944553a9ea35622046bd1ab5657fd416a7019a (patch) | |
| tree | 329c340795740a2b42c95c1d40a32b8184d54080 | |
| parent | 6cae41a4e63510cdcf3af1153d6e8300435e1838 (diff) | |
bootmisc: optionally save the previous dmesg log
X-Gentoo-Bug: 561204
X-Gentoo-Bug-URL: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=561204
| -rw-r--r-- | conf.d/bootmisc | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | init.d/bootmisc.in | 3 |
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/conf.d/bootmisc b/conf.d/bootmisc index d79706cc..53712097 100644 --- a/conf.d/bootmisc +++ b/conf.d/bootmisc @@ -8,3 +8,8 @@ wipe_tmp="YES" # Write the initial dmesg log into /var/log/dmesg after boot # This may be useful if you need the kernel boot log afterwards log_dmesg="YES" + +# Save the previous dmesg log to dmesc.old +# This may be useful if you need to compare the current boot to the +# previous one. +#previous_dmesg=no diff --git a/init.d/bootmisc.in b/init.d/bootmisc.in index 1a05920b..4015d8fe 100644 --- a/init.d/bootmisc.in +++ b/init.d/bootmisc.in @@ -216,6 +216,9 @@ start() case "$RC_SYS" in VSERVER|OPENVZ|LXC|SYSTEMD-NSPAWN) ;; *) + if yesno ${previous_dmesg:-no}; then + mv /var/log/dmesg /var/log/dmesg.old + fi dmesg > /var/log/dmesg chmod 640 /var/log/dmesg ;; |