Troubleshooting server crashes

[Henry Spencer]

On Fri, 3 Oct 2003, Fraser Campbell wrote:
> When a server crashes and absolutely nothing interesting is in the logs what 
> does a person do? ...
> What approaches do you guys take for tracking these things down?

One trick that can be useful is to reconfigure the syslog subsystem to do
remote logging.  It sometimes happens that there *were* relevant log
entries made, but they didn't make it out to disk before the system died. 
You can sometimes reduce loss of last-minute log messages by sending them
to another machine instead. 

                                                          Henry Spencer
                                                       henry-lqW1N6Cllo0sV2N9l4h3zg at public.gmane.org

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