Just for curiosity, why has no one ever arranged to
log something like "Hey! I'm booting the system again!"
as the very first line in that goes to /var/log/messages
when the system is booting?

If would be real convenient to have a known string to
search for that always precedes the rest of the messages
in a new boot.
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On 05/30/2011 03:36 PM, Tom Horsley wrote:
> If would be real convenient to have a known string to
> search for that always precedes the rest of the messages
> in a new boot.

You could try grep'ing for the Linux version string, always one of the
first several lines printed during kernel startup. Try searching for
something such as "[ 0.000000] Linux version".

Alternatively, you could search for your logger's "start" message. On my
Fedora 15 install, the first messages on each boot are:

imklog 5.7.9, log source = /proc/kmsg started.
rsyslogd: [origin software="rsyslogd" swVersion="5.7.9" x-pid="872"
x-info="http://www.rsyslog.com"] start

Hope that helps.
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