[CentOS] Trouble brewing in dmesg... any ideas?

[Ted Miller]

Rob Townley wrote:
> dmesg > dmesg.log
> 
> or
> 
> cd /var/log/
> ls -lat | more
> 
> i liked the old days when dmesg, /var/log/messages and other syslog 
> stuff was displayed automatically on a tty console.  I tried a softlink 
> from /var/log/messages to tty9, but didn't have any luck.  Would it 
> require a tee or a mod to dmesg?

One of those rare occasions when I know the answer, so I'll share.  Had to 
go look at my /etc/syslog.conf file to remember the magic incantation:

# Log everything to tty12
# Added by TCM on 24 Nov 06
*.*							/dev/tty12

This puts all that "stuff" on Ctrl-Alt-F12 "where it belongs".  Enjoy.

Ted Miller



> 
> On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 6:38 PM, Tim Nelson <tnelson at rockbochs.com 
> <mailto:tnelson at rockbochs.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Unfortunately I can't see the top of the errors as there are too
>     many... :-( I'll throw a console on it and start logging. Is anyone
>     else seeing this sort of activity? I'm running the latest stock
>     kernel available using yum from the repos. I'm not using any
>     additional repos(rpmforge, epel, etc...) and I don't have any custom
>     compiled modules. This box is a fresh installation running bind,
>     apache, and mysqld.
> 
>     Tim Nelson
>     Systems/Network Support
>     Rockbochs Inc.
>     (218)727-4332 x105
> 
>     ----- Original Message -----
>     From: "nate" <centos at linuxpowered.net <mailto:centos at linuxpowered.net>>
>     To: centos at centos.org <mailto:centos at centos.org>
>     Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2008 6:19:07 PM GMT -06:00 Guadalajara /
>     Mexico City / Monterrey
>     Subject: Re: [CentOS] Trouble brewing in dmesg... any ideas?
> 
>     Tim Nelson wrote:
> 
>      > There are others with various app names besides vi including
>     httpd, named,
>      > sftp-server, etc..  Is this an imminent hardware failure? Do I
>     have kernel
>      > issues? I've checked the system with lm_sensors and temps are
>     perfectly
>      > normal. Also, performance and operation seems to be fine. Even
>     with these
>      > errors, my services are running without any hiccups. HELP! :-)
>      >
> 
>     Would need to see the full error but it sounds like a kernel oops. For
>     me at least the useful info would be at the top of the error which
>     wasn't
>     included in your email.
> 
>     Worst case, configure your system with a serial console and capture the
>     error using a terminal emulator on another machine plugged into your
>     serial console.
> 
>     nate
> 
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