CentOS - May 2016 - DOS line ends on /var/log/boot.log on CentOS 6.7 ?

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

On 19.05.2016 18:56, Kay Schenk wrote:
> 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.
>
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 ;-)

On 05/19/2016 09:56 AM, Kay Schenk wrote:
> 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.
>
> --
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

>> 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.
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.