-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday, 2008-11-27 at 15:39 -0000, Richard (MQ) wrote:
Carlos E. R. wrote:
As you say - /var/log is on ram-disc during installation and readily lost if things go wrong. This "baroque improvisation" is actually quite easy to implement, and it does work. I can't see how syslog-ng might be used here, the YaST messages aren't readily routed to the network are they?
No, they aren't.
But it is of no use for kernel debugging.
syslogd has an option that allows it to receive logs from a remote system. See the man page of syslog and /etc/sysconfig/syslog
Correct. I do receive syslog messages from my router in this system, as a matter of fact. However, during a kernel failure the network is not guaranteed to work... and it doesn't.
I hadn't realised that you wanted some tool to allow you to talk to the machine _after_ the kernel crash. Indeed my suggestion is quite useless for that. I wasn't aware that such a thing was even possible (and also surprised that it might be of any use, after the event).
No, I do not want to talk to the machine afterwards. It is sometimes possible, but not this one. What I want is to catch the kernel panic message or the oops. These messages are usually printed to tty10 and syslog, but as the system has crashed, they are not recorded. They can be catched, though, if you are looking at console 10 at the precise moment it crashes, or if you have that console remotely through a serial port - not a network connection. Please have a look here: http://en.opensuse.org/Bugs/Kernel#Using_the_serial_console that document falls very short of explaining all that is needed for someone that has never done it, but it is the only document they have pointed me to. My only hope is that 11.1 final starts crashing on people when it gets released and thousands of people use it: then I'll get help. Too late. :-( - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkkuyXcACgkQtTMYHG2NR9V3TACeId0TDxJn1bUsnhxH+h8S8bqK qLAAn0ZhbMQJksn6TDKZ3Nz7FaFJmzOQ =Fd4G -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org