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[Marcos Vinicius Lazarini <lazarini@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Richard Mixon (qwest) wrote:
> C Hamel wrote:
> > On Tuesday 31 August 2004 14:20, Richard Mixon (qwest) wrote:
> >
> > > Our server running SLES8 for AMD64 crashed this morning. It restarted
> > > fine, but looking at the logs I cannot find anything that suggests a
> > > problem. The server runs Apache and Tomcat. I have looked at:
> > >  /var/log/messages /var/log/apache2/*
> > >  My Tomcat logs
> > >
> > > Where else should I be looking? I included my /var/log/messags below
> > > from just before the crash and the startup afterwareds - maybe I'm
> > > missing something. It crashed at 11:29, finally got the coloc
> > > operator to restart it at 11:54.
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance - Richard
> >
> > <SNIP_OUTPUT>
> > Have you searched 'localmessages' (assuming it exists on a server)?  I
> > sometimes get a clue from that.
> > --
>
>
> Thanks, but the messages in localmessages appear to be about the same as
> in messages. Nothing different that I can see.
>
>  - Richard

try something like that:
grep -r "Aug 30 11:2" /var/log/*
or just
grep -r "11:2" /var/log/*
or even
grep -r "11:" /var/log/*


I had problems once with buggy kernels, completely halting the system 
(kernel panic) during the 'fixating' phase in xcdroast - and got nothing in 
the logs. Probably something useful was written to console 10, but never had 
 have time to arrive into the disk.

It may sound obvious, but.... did you check if BOFH was around about the 
crash time? :-)


Marcos Lazarini