> -----Original Message----- > From: centos-bounces at centos.org > [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Timothy Murphy > Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2009 9:07 AM > To: centos at centos.org > Subject: Re: [CentOS] What is the System Event Log? > > John 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 ? > > > > 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. > > How do I install OMSA? > I looked for OMSA* and omsa* packages (with yum) but did not > find anything You have to install the Dell Yum Repo http://linux.dell.com/repo/software/ http://linux.dell.com/monitoring.shtml http://linux.dell.com/projects.shtml > >> 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. > > I realize that. > I'm just suggesting that it would be easier to read /var/log/messages > if it started a new page on re-booting. > > > Lastly > > you can send a mail to "linux-poweredge at dell.com" > > I'm not quite sure what you mean. > Is this a Dell technical information site? It is a Dell mailing List Like this one for technical help for Linux on Dell Only.