John 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 ?
If you have OMSA installed you can check out those logs. Ipmi and Dmidecode as mentioned and check out linux.dell.com Wiki for support and diagnostic tools.
How do I install OMSA? I looked for OMSA* and omsa* packages (with yum) but did not find anything
Incidentally, wouldn't it be a good idea for /var/log/messages* to start a new file when booting?
When it gets to a certain size limit it will rollover to a new log.
I realize that. I'm just suggesting that it would be easier to read /var/log/messages if it started a new page on re-booting.
Lastly you can send a mail to "linux-poweredge@dell.com"
I'm not quite sure what you mean. Is this a Dell technical information site?