When I want to see error messages, tail -f /var/log/messages produces this...am I doing something wrong?
enterprise:/home/patrick# tail -f /var/log/messages Jul 28 07:14:11 enterprise -- MARK -- Jul 28 07:34:11 enterprise -- MARK -- Jul 28 07:54:10 enterprise -- MARK -- Jul 28 08:14:10 enterprise -- MARK -- Jul 28 08:34:10 enterprise -- MARK -- Jul 28 08:54:10 enterprise -- MARK -- Jul 28 09:14:09 enterprise -- MARK -- Jul 28 09:34:11 enterprise -- MARK -- Jul 28 09:54:10 enterprise -- MARK -- Jul 28 10:14:10 enterprise -- MARK -- Also top shows no processes at all but pstree does: 10:23am up 10 days, 18:31, 2 users, load average: 0.09, 0.08, 0.08 37 processes: 36 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped CPU states: 0.5% user, 0.3% system, 0.0% nice, 99.2% idle Mem: 127168K av, 121892K used, 5276K free, 16184K shrd, 62020K buff Swap: 208800K av, 1112K used, 207688K free 44716K cached PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT LIB %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND I'm having problems with dropped connections and would like to be able to use these commands. If this is a RTFM, please do let me know which FM to R. Patrick
