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 >> 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?