From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 15 09:46:33 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27F701065673 for ; Thu, 15 May 2008 09:46:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@parodius.com) Received: from mx01.sc1.parodius.com (mx01.sc1.parodius.com [72.20.106.3]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17BFB8FC16 for ; Thu, 15 May 2008 09:46:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@parodius.com) Received: by mx01.sc1.parodius.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id E55411CC038; Thu, 15 May 2008 02:46:32 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 02:46:32 -0700 From: Jeremy Chadwick To: Nick Barnes Message-ID: <20080515094632.GA2738@eos.sc1.parodius.com> References: <60281.1210842841@thrush.ravenbrook.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <60281.1210842841@thrush.ravenbrook.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: syslog console log not logging SCSI problems X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 09:46:33 -0000 On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 10:14:01AM +0100, Nick Barnes wrote: > One of our FreeBSD boxes has a SCSI controller and disk, which showed > problems earlier this week. There was a lot of of chatter from the > SCSI driver in /var/log/messages and to the console. However, the > console is unattended and we only discovered the problem subsequently > because /var/log/console.log didn't show any of the chatter. > > console.log is otherwise working, and very helpful (e.g. it shows > /etc/rc output at boot which lets us spot daemon failures). > > We've rebuilt the machine now (fan failure leading to boot disk > failure), so I can't report the SCSI chatter in question, but here is > the dmesg and syslog.conf. Any suggestions? /boot/loader.conf, /boot.config, and /etc/make.conf would also be useful. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |