bootlogd

i have added bootlogd start to my rc0 start up script
debian:/etc/rc0.d# ls -l S*boot*
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root root 18 2006-10-26 10:41 S00bootlogd -> ../init.d/bootlogd
lets see if this can log everything.

here is so more information i found out about bootlogd
the init script i set up in /etc/rcS.d no in the above /etc/rc0.d
and this guy at http://www.timhardy.net/wordpress/2005/12/11/enabling-bootlogd-on-debian-31/
had the following to say:

Enabling Bootlogd on Debian 3.1

Bootlogd does not work out of the box on Debian 3.1 with a 2.6.8 kernel. If you enable it by setting the option to yes in /etc/default/bootlogd you’ll see the error message bootlogd: ioctl (/dev/ttyzf, TIOCCONS): Bad file descriptor scroll by on boot and the log is not created.

The problem lies with the version of udev used in Debian stable.

One solution is to upgrade the udev package to one from testing or unstable but that is not acceptable to someone who wants a pure system.

The alternative is to move the order the scripts are executed in /etc/rcS.d/. Remember, execution order is determined by the number in the filename so by renaming the bootlogd launching script you can get it to run before the udev script S04udev

mv /etc/rcS.d/S05bootlogd /etc/rcS.d/S03bootlogd-was-S05

The next time you boot, the log will be enabled for reading in /var/log/boot.

(Solution by Frans Pop on the debian-laptop mailing list)

then you need to change the /etc/default/bootlogd file look like
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# Run bootlogd at startup ?
BOOTLOGD_ENABLE=YES