Re: how to find the why linux crash if it crashed?
On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 10:24:59AM +0800, H.H. Ding wrote:
> I have never find any log for why the linux crash. Is it reasonable?
> or should I tun on some options in some config file?
It depends on what caused the crash. Sometimes a message will be sent
by syslog to /var/log/syslog. Sometimes the log will get written to
disk before the crash. Often it won't.
A good way to solve this quandry in critical machines is to have their
syslog send to the syslog of another box.
Doug.
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