Setting up a serial console can be more reliable than logging over the network or to disk.
On Thu, Jul 9, 2020 at 12:14 PM Ben Koenig <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
