Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 03:02:03 -0700 From: Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@FreeBSD.org> To: Nick Barnes <Nick.Barnes@pobox.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: syslog console log not logging SCSI problems Message-ID: <20080515100203.GA3303@eos.sc1.parodius.com> In-Reply-To: <60461.1210845350@thrush.ravenbrook.com> References: <20080515094632.GA2738@eos.sc1.parodius.com> <60461.1210845350@thrush.ravenbrook.com>
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On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 10:55:50AM +0100, Nick Barnes wrote: > At 2008-05-15 09:46:32+0000, Jeremy Chadwick writes: > > 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. > > All empty, except setting kern.maxdsiz in /boot/loader.conf. Running > GENERIC. > > If this happens again, I will retain a copy of /var/log/messages so I > can report the SCSI messages in question, but they aren't as > interesting to me as the fact that they didn't appear in console.log. I've seen odd behaviour with syslog before, but it's hard to explain. I don't use the console.info entry in /etc/syslog.conf, so I can't tell you what's going on there. Another thing I can think of would be your kernel configuration. Can you provide it? -- | 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 |
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