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From: Gustavo Zacarias <gustavo@zacarias.com.ar>
Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2013 13:54:58 -0300
Subject: [Buildroot] syslog messages during boot not recorded?
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On 04/08/2013 01:51 PM, Francesco wrote:

> well, my buildroot is not the latest version... I'm using version
> 10.11 and I cannot see anything similar to IPC_SYSLOG in its
> .config... maybe this is a feature of newer buildroots?
> 
> Thanks!
> FM

It's a feature of BUSYBOX, not buildroot, meant for syslogd to work in
scenarios where your /var/log directory isn't writable for example.
Which begs the question, is it writable?
Regards.