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kackland
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 Posted: Sat Mar 27, 2004 10:15 pm Post subject: emerge system? syslog-ng and vga=? |
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Couple of questions.
I've got a working system, I have boot up error that the system gets past, I've enabled syslog-ng. How do I see the error messages? Do I use nano - but which log file?
I've just emerge sync - which I assume gets my portage up to date, should I emerge system? I didn't do this during the install because I did a stage3 install. Will it do damage to my system?
In grub i've specified the splash image which works. At one time I have a fantastic console style screen just like the live cd - i think i used vga=0x317. Where do i put it and is that right?
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Helena
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| Posted: Sat Mar 27, 2004 10:31 pm Post subject: Re: emerge system? syslog-ng and vga=? |
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| kackland wrote: | Couple of questions.
I've got a working system, I have boot up error that the system gets past, I've enabled syslog-ng. How do I see the error messages? Do I use nano - but which log file?
I've just emerge sync - which I assume gets my portage up to date, should I emerge system? I didn't do this during the install because I did a stage3 install. Will it do damage to my system?
In grub i've specified the splash image which works. At one time I have a fantastic console style screen just like the live cd - i think i used vga=0x317. Where do i put it and is that right? |
1. Useor if you want to scrollor if you want to search for lines with specific text use e.g. | Code: | | dmesg|grep -i 'eth' |
2. is not necessary and does not improve anything; it does not hurt your system either.
3. on grub and splash screens read the manual (it must be in there) |
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kackland
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| Posted: Sat Mar 27, 2004 10:39 pm Post subject: |
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thanks helena
i think i'll be using dmesg a fair bit now!
i've checked the docs, that specific command is not shown.
thanks again
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justanothergentoofanatic
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Just FYI - emerge system is entirely necessary to correct critital security vulnerabilities in the system packages. However, the correct usage of this command is:
emerge -uD system or
emerge -uD world.
Also, the kernel boot messages will usually be in the file /var/log/messages, but dmesg is a better way to view them since it's not time-dependant.
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