Now that uptimes run into months on a regular basis, I often find myself

wondering what the hw-config of a machine is, and the logs have been
rotated many times since reboot already.

Added:
	/sbin/dmesg > /var/tmp/dmesg.boot
to /etc/rc

2.2 candidate

etc/rc

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 #!/bin/sh
-#	$Id: rc,v 1.107 1996/12/19 18:06:35 joerg Exp $
+#	$Id: rc,v 1.108 1996/12/23 00:32:15 joerg Exp $
 #	From: @(#)rc	5.27 (Berkeley) 6/5/91
 
 # System startup script run by init on autoboot
@@ -86,6 +86,9 @@ fi
 
 adjkerntz -i
 
+# Keep a copy of the boot messages around
+/sbin/dmesg > /var/tmp/dmesg.boot
+
 # If there is a global system configuration file, suck it in.
 if [ -f /etc/sysconfig ]; then
 	. /etc/sysconfig