Capture OOPS

[aragonx at dcsnow.com]

>
>     Seems I've asked this before, but I'll be darned if I can find the
> answer somewhere in my archives.  I need to capture a kernel OOPS
> somehow.  I've got a server that seems to be trigger happy and locking
> up/crashing once every 24 hours or so.  The unfortunate thing is that
> I'm not there when it happens to look on the monitor and see if I can
> discern  anything from there (usually one of the other guys come in
> before me and they simply hit the reset button because they don't
> understand the gibberish on screen anyway.)  So, I need to figure out a
> way to capture that OOPS.  Since it's not send to syslog, I can't send
> it to another machine for logging.  What other methods are there of
> doing this?  This machine doesn't have a serial link that I can link up
> to another either.  So, anyone?

Time to show my age.  There used to be a kernel compile option that would
allow you to have your console on a line printer.  I'm not sure that is
available anymore but there must be a way to echo all text that is
intended for the console to a printer.




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