System Error logs

[Ugo Bellavance]

Chiu, PCM (Peter) wrote:
> Did try dmesg, but cannot find them.
> 
> The system actually went very sluggish at one stage (possibly due to the
> disk faults
> and a number of error messages displaying at the console), so I have
> power-cycled the box.
> 
> It will be useful to track these errors somehow...

See /etc/syslog.conf

man syslog.conf

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> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Rigler, Stephen C.
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> Subject: RE: System Error logs
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> 
> You'll probably see them in the output of "dmesg" 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Chiu, PCM (Peter)
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> Cc: Chiu, PCM (Peter)
> Subject: System Error logs
> 
> I have seen error messages (disk relating) throwing out at the console,
> but I cannot locate them under /var/log/messages* or any files under 
> this directory.
> 
> Are they kept in any log file?
> 
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