Subject: Re: [vserver] Seeing/Logging init startup output
From: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at>
Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2010 18:04:37 +0200

On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 11:43:24AM +0100, Gordan Bobic wrote:
> On 09/10/2010 11:33 AM, Daniel Hokka Zakrisson wrote:
> >Gordan Bobic wrote:
> >>Is there a way to log init startup output as would appear on the console
> >>of a physical host, so I can see if/which services are having issues
> >>starting up?

> >That depends entirely on the init system used, the init style used, etc.

> Specifically in my case, RHEL6 with upstart in plain init style. A 
> simple console log would do, but the documentation doesn't seem to list 
> what to do to capture this for plain init style.

usually you instruct the init process to log to a file
instead of a console, but if that isn't possible, because
init doesn't have that option, you can always use a real
console/tty to log to

HTH,
Herbert

> Gordan