Systems logs in /var/log keep a running tab of events as they occur. In the event of an unexpected shutdown the last message will be whatever was happening at the moment of the crash.
You can either reboot and then scroll up in the logs to that point in time, or you can open an SSH session and monitor the log from another computer. When the crash occurs and SSH is killed you should still have the most recent message on your terminal. -Ben On Thu, Jul 9, 2020, 10:37 AM Dick Steffens <[email protected]> wrote: > I have a Lenovo Thinkcentre M58P. It works fine until it doesn't. It's > not a primary machine, but it is up 24/7. The problem is that at some > point it hangs. The only way to get it to work again is to power it off > and then restart it. I'd like to devise a log of some sort that I can > run from another machine that will give me some idea of what was going > on when it hung. I envision some kind of ping from my main machine to > the troublesome one. I'm assuming I could use a script run by CRON (if > that's saying it right). Is there something more useful than just ping? > > -- > Regards, > > Dick Steffens > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
