bootlogd software package provides daemon to log boot messages, you can install in your Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety Yak) by running the commands given below on the terminal,
$ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install bootlogd
bootlogd is installed in your system.
Make ensure the bootlogd package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep bootlogd *
You will get with bootlogd package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 16 10 yakkety yak |
| Section | Administration Utilities |
| Package | bootlogd |
| Version | 2.88dsf-59.3ubuntu2 |
| Description | daemon to log boot messages |
| Sub Section | admin |