[CentOS] Power Cut

Hadi Motamedi motamedi24 at gmail.com
Sun Oct 30 07:02:25 UTC 2016


Thank you very much for your reply . So you mean under the
/var/log/messages it is distinguishable that which logs come from operator
initiated reboot and which ones come from sudden power cut and then booting
from scratch when power resumed ? Am I correct ?


On Sat, Oct 29, 2016 at 11:44 PM, John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com> wrote:

> On 10/29/2016 10:12 PM, Hadi Motamedi wrote:
>
>> I am using a centos server for cdr billing and mediation device on a
>> remote
>> network. I am experiencing problem that I am suspicious it comes from main
>> supply power cut at the remote site. The power supply to the remote site
>> comes from battery charger that will be automatically switched in circuit
>> under main supply power cut but cannot provide adequate power for more
>> than
>> 2 hours . I am suspicious that the remote system is suffering from many
>> frequent main supply power cut . Can you please do me favor and let me
>> know
>> if there is any log on my centos server that I can check to see if there
>> would be many frequent power cut there ?
>>
>
> look at /var/log/messages for reboots without shutdowns.
>
> centos 6 linux boot starts logging something like...
>
> Oct 25 15:01:25 new kernel: imklog 5.8.10, log source = /proc/kmsg started.
> Oct 25 15:01:25 new rsyslogd: [origin software="rsyslogd"
> swVersion="5.8.10" x-pid="2740" x-info="http://www.rsyslog.com"] start
> Oct 25 15:01:25 new kernel: Initializing cgroup subsys cpuset
> Oct 25 15:01:25 new kernel: Initializing cgroup subsys cpu
> Oct 25 15:01:25 new kernel: Linux version 2.6.32-642.6.1.el6.x86_64 (
> mockbuild at worker1.bsys.centos.org) (gcc version 4.4.7 20120313 (Red Hat
> 4.4.7-17) (GCC) ) #1 SMP Wed Oct 5 00:36:12 UTC 2016
>
>
> followed by tons more about all the stuff starting up....
>
>
> when its properly shutdown, you'd see something like this after everything
> has stopped
>
> Oct 25 14:20:36 new init: Disconnected from system bus
> Oct 25 14:20:38 new rpcbind: rpcbind terminating on signal. Restart with
> "rpcbind -w"
> Oct 25 14:20:38 new auditd[2704]: The audit daemon is exiting.
> Oct 25 14:20:38 new kernel: type=1305 audit(1477430438.399:37765):
> audit_pid=0 old=2704 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 res=1
> Oct 25 14:20:38 new kernel: type=1305 audit(1477430438.497:37766):
> audit_enabled=0 old=1 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 res=1
> Oct 25 14:20:38 new kernel: Kernel logging (proc) stopped.
> Oct 25 14:20:38 new rsyslogd: [origin software="rsyslogd"
> swVersion="5.8.10" x-pid="2738" x-info="http://www.rsyslog.com"] exiting
> on signal 15.
>
>
> if its booted without a clean shutdown, it will do some file system
> checking and such while starting.
>
>
> --
> john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz
>
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