Peter Kjellstrom 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. Thanks for the info. As I mentioned in another posting, I found that I could read the System Event Log after pressing F2 (Enter Setup) on boot. I tried the command above, but it did not work. I found I already had OpenIPMI (which I have never heard of) installed, and I yum-installed OpenIPMI-tools . But when I ran the command I got: ------------------------------------------------- [tim at helen ~]$ sudo service ipmi restart Stopping all ipmi drivers: [ OK ] Starting ipmi drivers: [FAILED] [tim at helen ~]$ sudo ipmitool sel list Could not open device at /dev/ipmi0 or /dev/ipmi/0 or /dev/ipmidev/0: No such file or directory Get SEL Info command failed -------------------------------------------------