[CentOS] Investigate the root cause of server reboot

Sun Sep 6 16:57:29 UTC 2009
Justin Yao <jyaojyao at gmail.com>

Hi Barry,

Thanks for your suggestion.
The load of my server is very light. I'll give remote syslog a try. If
remote syslog can't catch anything extra, is there any other clue?

Thanks,
Justin


On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 10:45 AM, Barry Brimer <lists at brimer.org> wrote:

> > My CentOS will reboot every several days. There's nothing in
> > /var/log/messages. I want to find out why it reboots automatically. Is
> there
> > any log I can look at? Or any suggestions to monitor the server activity?
>
> You might try setting up remote syslogging to see if you catch anything
> extra there .. besides that .. if you have any indication that it is load
> related .. you might look at hangwatch
> <http://people.redhat.com/astokes/hangwatch/> to try and get information
> from sysrq if load becomes too high.
>
> Barry
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