Mail Archives: opendos/1997/03/28/17:03:08
On 1997-03-28 kentb AT vnd DOT tek DOT com said:
>Jude DaShiell wrote:
>> I just thought of something, the config.log and autoexec.log
>>files should always generate on a boot. If there were no errors
>>in config.sys when the machine booted then config.log could be
>>erased. If there were no errors in autoexec.bat then autoexec.log
>>could be erased. Boots should do destructive writing of these
>>log files. If an error does happen or perhaps more than one error,
>>perhaps the offending parameter on the command line could be
>>tagged with a caret in front of it.
>> I know systems especially the faster ones boot up too fast
>> even for people with 20:20 vission to read the screen much of the
>>time and this feature were it implemented would remove
>> that requirement.
>> On Thu, 27 Mar 1997, Mike A. Harris wrote:
>> > On Sat, 22 Mar 1997 jdashiel AT eagle1 DOT eaglenet DOT com wrote:
>> >
>> > > If possible, opendos shouldn't be permitted to boot
>> > > up on anyone's machine without writing a config.log and
>>autoexec.log > > file if any errors are encountered in either
>>config.sys or autoexec.bat > > files. If those files generate
>>under error conditions > > fixing problems and documenting
>>problems will be much easier. > > Probably the line number where
>>the error happened should be > > put into the log files along
>>with the error message. > > jude <jdashiel AT eagle1 DOT eaglenet DOT com>
>> >
>> > YES! Much like the system logs in Linux (ala syslogd and
>>klogd). > Those logs come in VERY HANDY when trying to pinpoint
>>trouble. >
>> > Mike A. Harris | http://blackwidow.saultc.on.
>>ca/~mharris > Computer Consultant | Coming
>>soon: dynamic-IP-freedom... > My dynamic address:
>http://blackwidow.saultc.on.ca/~mharris/ip-address.html
>> >
>> > EMACS: Escape Meta Alt Control Shift :o)
>> >
>> >
>> jude <jdashiel AT eagle1 DOT eaglenet DOT com>
>Couldn't we get by with just one file "boot.log". I would hate the
>growing list of possible
>log file to track through to find a bootup problem.
>--
>Kent Byerley | We are born naked,
>kentb AT vnd DOT tek DOT com | wet and hungry.
>Tektronix, Beaverton, Or | Then things get worse.
Wouldn't the log file(s) be more useful if previous
versions were retained for a period of time. If entries
in a single file were dated at each reboot the system
could delete older entries to keep the log file to a
reasonable size, and by all means, one file rather than two.
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