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Homework and Emergencies Emergency UNIX and Linux Support Capturing console (/dev/ttyS1) logs Post 302636919 by xerox on Tuesday 8th of May 2012 05:51:21 AM
Old 05-08-2012
This is on an embedded device with Linux 2.6.27.39-grsec.

dmesg only gives kernel logs, the logs i intent to collect come from the ramfs, before booting the kernel.

Smilie

 

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dmesg(1M)																 dmesg(1M)

NAME
dmesg - collect system diagnostic messages to form error log SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
looks in a system buffer for recently printed diagnostic messages and prints them on the standard output. The messages are those printed by the system when unusual events occur (such as when system tables overflow or the system crashes). If the argument is specified, com- putes (incrementally) the new messages since the last time it was run and places these on the standard output. This is typically used with (see cron(1)) to produce the error log by running the command: every 10 minutes. The arguments and allow substitution for the defaults and where should be a file containing the image of the kernel virtual memory saved by the savecrash(1M) command and should be the corresponding kernel. If the system is booted with a kernel other than /stand/vmunix say /stand/vmunix_new, must be passed this name, the command must be, WARNINGS
The system error message buffer is of small, finite size. is run only every few minutes, so there is no guarantee that all error messages will be logged. AUTHOR
was developed by the University of California, Berkeley. FILES
error log (conventional location) memory scratch file for option special file containing the image of kernel virtual memory the kernel, system name list SEE ALSO
savecrash(1M). dmesg(1M)
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