From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Gustavo Zacarias Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2013 13:38:48 -0300 Subject: [Buildroot] syslog messages during boot not recorded? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <5162F298.7060909@zacarias.com.ar> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net On 04/08/2013 01:30 PM, Francesco Montorsi wrote: > I installed some daemons wrote by me which are started at boot time by some > /etc/init.d scripts of mine. These daemons use many syslog() to provide > verbose debugging messages... however, for some reason, when I boot the > system and cat /var/log/messages, I do not see any message. > If I start manually the daemons, the messages are correctly logged to > /var/log/messages... > > I think that this problem maybe because syslogd is startd AFTER all > /etc/init.d scripts have been processed.. is that right? Hi. Or maybe your busybox is configured to use the circular buffer (in RAM) for logs (CONFIG_FEATURE_IPC_SYSLOG)... and you should just read your logs with "logread"... Regards.