Hi all
I am currently experiencing periodic system hangs on my servers (Dell 1850's)
I was wondering if it is a big deal to send kernel panic messages (eg cpu panics, oops messages etc) to a log opposed to the console. I thought it was just a config change to syslog.conf but my associate says we will need to recompile the kernel ????
many thanks
Its hard to imagine that those types of messages dont already go to the syslog. We have 2 types of logs, one goes to the console which goes into a seperate log file and what goes into syslog.log.
I would bet there is a way you can redirect console logging to a file.
Does your console have a log of its own or does it go into oblivion?
And btw, if your system is hanging, I think that would be a good time to recompile the kernel if your problem is serious enough. Right after you reboot, stop at single user mode and recompile it there.
many thanks for the help. I spotted a few packages that were 'upgraded' without my knowledge this seemd to be screwing things up - removed them and no more hangs thus far - we have opted for a remote syslog server as well as making a few changes to syslog.conf. Looks good so far
thanks again for the response