machie check log

[don fisher]

Dave,

Just for info, I performed the install you suggested. Thanks! It did 
place the cron file in cron.daily, and the output is directed to 
/var/log/meclog, not an email to root.

don

Dave Jones wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 07:35:40PM -0700, don fisher wrote:
>  > Would someone please tell me what software is responsible for logging 
>  > the mce's, how it is initiated and name an location of the log file?
>  >
>  > I looked in /var/log and didn't see anything obvious. I receive a 
>  > "machine check events logged" error message on some disk IOs. The 
>  > /dev/mcelog file does exist, but I do not now how to trace the path 
> 
> yum install mcelog
> 
> this installs a cronjob, that when run each hour, checks for events
> that have occured, and if anything happened, the output gets sent
> as an email to root.
> 
> 		Dave
> 

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