Markus Gaugusch <markus@gaugusch.dhs.org> contributed:

i'd also like to redirect output of initscripts to a file for all my servers i can't reach because they are far away :)

The solution below is untested as I personally don't require the functionality and have no machine to test it on right now :/ /etc/rc.d/rc: Add the following line right above "exec 0<> $CONSOLE 1>&0 2>&0": export CONSOLE=/var/log/lastinit