Date: Mon, 2 Nov 1998 10:40:23 -0600 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> To: lvaughn <lvaughn@beaugraphics.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: event log Message-ID: <19981102104023.A19766@emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19981102111615.00816d00@mail.beaugraphics.com>; from "lvaughn" on Mon Nov 2 11:16:15 GMT 1998 References: <3.0.5.32.19981102111615.00816d00@mail.beaugraphics.com>
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In the last episode (Nov 02), lvaughn said: > New member to this listserve, and new user of FreeBSD. I'm sure my > question is very simple: > > My servers went down this weekend: how do I find out what time it > actually went down? Can I check an event log; what are my options? > and how do I do it? If you have any active servers on the machine, try looking at their respective logfiles. For example, if you get a steady stream of mail traffic, check /var/log/maillog for a big jump in timestamps. If the machine didn't just lock up (very rare), but paniced and rebooted, check /var/log/messages for the panic message, and /var/crash/* for a crashdump if you have enabled them. -Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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