[Novalug] Trouble-shooting system crash

Jon LaBadie novalugml@jgcomp.com
Sat Aug 23 16:13:44 EDT 2014


On Sat, Aug 23, 2014 at 04:03:46PM -0400, Jon LaBadie via Novalug wrote:
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> 
> As for logs, the kernel keeps a ring buffer of its most recent messages.
> These can be accessed via the dmesg(1) command.  Of course that is no
> use after a reboot.
> 
> Most applications log their messages via the syslog facility (rsyslogd(8)).
> They are saved in /var/log/messages and can be read with a pager.  Some
> applications also log messages in their own files, often stored under
> /var/log.

I meant to add, kernel messages are typically also logged to the
syslog facility, mixed in with those of other programs.

Jon
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