From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 2 08:40:36 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA05381 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 2 Nov 1998 08:40:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA05373 for ; Mon, 2 Nov 1998 08:40:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) id KAA19811; Mon, 2 Nov 1998 10:40:24 -0600 (CST) Date: Mon, 2 Nov 1998 10:40:23 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: lvaughn , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: event log Message-ID: <19981102104023.A19766@emsphone.com> References: <3.0.5.32.19981102111615.00816d00@mail.beaugraphics.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.94.3i In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19981102111615.00816d00@mail.beaugraphics.com>; from "lvaughn" on Mon Nov 2 11:16:15 GMT 1998 X-OS: FreeBSD 2.2.7-STABLE Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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