On 2021/04/14 13:48:43 +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote:
Maybe it is the blogd from blog package :) it is a dropin replacement for plymouth but without graphical splash screen and with working serial console support.
cer@Telcontar:~> rpm -q blog blog-2.18-lp152.6.6.x86_64 cer@Telcontar:~>
Curious, I do have it installed. News to me.
What runs it?
This package has two parts blog-plymouth to replace plymouth, that is provide all services even for dracut initrd, and blog which provides the daemon started within initrd. This daemon can switch root to survive switch from initrd to new root (done with the help of blog-switch-root.service). After /var/log becomes writable blogd move the old /var/log/boot.log to /var/log/boot.old and writes out the new /var/log/boot.log. After boot has finished the blogd gets stopped ... btw. on shutdown it will be finally restarted and then blogd appendes as long as possible to /var/log/boot.log. Werner
But the boot log comes from service klog.
This servive does move /var/log/boot.msg to /var/log/boot.omsg and then writes out /var/log/boot.msg as oneshot at boot. Only kernel messages can be found. Beside this console log level and log console is set. Werner -- "Having a smoking section in a restaurant is like having a peeing section in a swimming pool." -- Edward Burr