On Monday 09 February 2009, 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 ? No, the SEL is maintained on the BMC/IPMI-controller. In Linux you can (assuming you have /etc/init.d/ipmi running) view it with: ipmitool sel list You will need OpenIPMI and OpenIPMI-tools (from base) for the above to work. /Peter > 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. > > 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? -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20090209/964adb6d/attachment-0004.sig>