> -----Original Message----- > From: centos-bounces at centos.org > [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Timothy Murphy > Sent: Sunday, February 08, 2009 7:47 PM > To: centos at centos.org > Subject: [CentOS] What is the System Event Log? > > > 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. Depending on what you have installed on that particular server there can be many logs to check out under /var/log/* > 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. Post the Samba Messages and the log. No problems with samba that I know of unless your trying to run version 4. > 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? When it gets to a certain size limit it will rollover to a new log. Lastly you can send a mail to "linux-poweredge at dell.com" JohnStanley