On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 1:46 PM, Axel Dörfler <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Ralf Schülke <ralf.schuelke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> it is good when the /var/log/syslog have a date and time over the >> entries ? > > That's entirely your choice, just add the following line to your kernel > settings file: > syslog_time_stamps true Isn't there still an issue where all the timestamps applied to syslog during the boot sequence end up being the same (because they're applied when the syslog is written to disk, as opposed to when the event occurred)? I ask because I was looking for "timing" details during the boot process at one point, and using syslog's timestamps for that turned out to be fruitless IIRC. Maybe this got changed and I missed it :) - Urias