DOS Line Ends On /var/log/boot.log On CentOS 6.7 ?

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Hello all —

Recently, I’m seeing DOS line ends, ^M, on my /var/log/boot.log file. Honestly, I don’t check this very often so I can’t say exactly when this occurred. Is this just MY experience or are others seeing this also.

Additionally, boot/log seems very sparse. Is an old issue still in force on this?

https://www.CentOS.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=17313

​Should I get the updated script from CentOS Plus?

Thanks for any help.

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MzK

“Time spent with cats is never wasted.”
— Sigmund Freud

3 thoughts on - DOS Line Ends On /var/log/boot.log On CentOS 6.7 ?

  • this file shows ident content, as you see during boot, when you start without ‘quiet’
    and there are green or red colors, and these are also stored – somewhat ANSI escape sequences;

    when you do this:

    cat /var/log/boot.log

    you will see the AHA ;-)

  • Hello again, list.

    Please disregard this for the time being. I got a personal response that pointed out the doing a cat on boot.log produced a specific correct format whereis I was used to using my gui editor to display log files. Using the “log viewer” utility also shows these non-unix line ending which I found annoying.

    For those who are interested in additional boot.log settings, I found this page:

    https://www.CentOS.org/docs/5/html/5.2/Deployment_Guide/s2-sysconfig-init.html

    from the old deployment guide but I’m sure these en variables are the same now — well at least in the 6.x series.

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    MzK

    “Time spent with cats is never wasted.”
    — Sigmund Freud

  • I checked a C6 /var/log/boot.log from 5 years ago and ^M chars are there all right. You can easily spot them with less -R /var/log/boot.log. This is a surprise indeed and it’s not configurable. Try to comment out echo
    -ne “\r” lines in /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions if you hate the output so much.