[CentOS] What is the System Event Log?

Mon Feb 9 01:58:50 UTC 2009
Robert Nichols <rnicholsNOSPAM at comcast.net>

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 ?

The only System Event Log I know of is part of the BIOS.  If you
enter your BIOS setup you might find something recorded, or you
can try running "dmidecode -t system" (as root) and see if
anything meaningful shows up.  There's a manpage for dmidecode,
but I doubt you'll find much of interest there.

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