[NTLUG:Discuss] Periodic crashes on Redhat 8.0

[Kelledin]

On Monday 02 December 2002 09:18 pm, Minh Duong wrote:
>  Very recently one of my linux boxes running Redhat
> 8.0 locks up every day.  It still has power because I
> can open and close the CD ROM but it is not responsive
> to everything else and all the power lights are off.

Hmmm...all the power lights are off when it locks up?  That 
sounds to me like some power management problem there.  These 
are actually fairly common, whatever O/S you run.

> My next course of action is to connect it to a
> keyboard and monitor to see if the machines displays
> any errors before crashing.  What logs can I check to
> see what is happening?  Thanks.

On most distros, /var/log/messages is the standard catch-all 
bucket for syslog messages.  Kernel log messages (which is 
probably what you want) end up going there too; 
/var/log/kern.log often exists also, to hold nothing but 
kernel-generated log messages.

-- 
Kelledin
"If a server crashes in a server farm and no one pings it, does 
it still cost four figures to fix?"