From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 27 10:40:34 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 949B516A4CE for ; Sat, 27 Dec 2003 10:40:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from thunder.trej.net (as3-3-6.orby.s.bonet.se [217.215.33.185]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DBBB43D1F for ; Sat, 27 Dec 2003 10:40:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd@dagerot.nu) Received: from mailgw.trej.net (localhost [127.0.0.1])hBRIeK418241 for ; Sat, 27 Dec 2003 19:40:21 +0100 Message-Id: <200312271840.hBRIeK418241@thunder.trej.net> Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2003 19:40:20 +0100 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit From: Joachim Dagerot Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org User-Agent: IMHO/0.98.3t (Webmail for Roxen) 3j-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information 3j-MailScanner: Found to be clean Subject: What logs etc do I need to checkfrequently? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2003 18:40:34 -0000 As you with good memories know, I lost 3000 pictures of my first sons first year this month. I did have a RAID-5 system with fresh disks, however, shit happens and I have a feeling that this could have been avoided if I read my log files better. So basically, a) I get a mail each time my a cron-event fires, this happens every 30 min so the mailbox are quite loaded, not very funny going through. b) The file messages contained information that my raid-system was about to blow, I didn't see this because I never read that file. Also it appears to only log information after a reboot. The vinum history file seems to only hold information about the vinum setup, not the health of the volumes. Questions: a1) Is it possible to only get a mail with critical information, where and what do I need to do to achieve this? b1) Where will information about ongoing disk-problems appear? How can I see that there is a flaky disk in a non-rebooted system? In addition to the questions above, is there something else I need to tune/install/setup/configurare to get a very reliable system that report critical data to me but where non-critical data is filtered out? Thank in advance, my FreeBSD setup is getting more and more mature now, only thanks to this list. Regards, Joachim