-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Timothy Murphy Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2009 9:07 AM To: centos@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] What is the System Event Log?
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
You have to install the Dell Yum Repo http://linux.dell.com/repo/software/ http://linux.dell.com/monitoring.shtml http://linux.dell.com/projects.shtml
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?
It is a Dell mailing List Like this one for technical help for Linux on Dell Only.