[CentOS] What is the System Event Log?

Mon Feb 9 13:23:57 UTC 2009
Peter Kjellstrom <cap at nsc.liu.se>

On Monday 09 February 2009, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> My Dell PowerEdge T105 running Centos-5.2
> has started crashing fairly often (3 times in the last 2 hours).
> The message on the screen tells me to look at the System Event Log.
> Is this just /var/log/messages ?

No, the SEL is maintained on the BMC/IPMI-controller. In Linux you can 
(assuming you have /etc/init.d/ipmi running) view it with:
 ipmitool sel list

You will need OpenIPMI and OpenIPMI-tools (from base) for the above to work.

/Peter

> I didn't see anything helpful there.
> As far as I could see, the last messages before the crash
> were about samba, which is running on the machine.
> Has anyone had such problems with Samba?
> I've stopped the smb service to see if this improves matters.
>
> I'm running a standard updated system.
> I looked at smartctl but this did not suggest
> that there was anything wrong with the 2 SATA disks.
>
> Incidentally, wouldn't it be a good idea for /var/log/messages*
> to start a new file when booting?
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