[PLUG] Help diagnosing system restarts
Eric Wilhelm
scratchcomputing at gmail.com
Fri Oct 12 00:01:03 UTC 2007
# from Aaron Ten Clay
# on Thursday 11 October 2007 06:37:
>I've got a box setup for my mother who is 300 miles away from me.
...
> There are no obvious messages pertaining to the
> reboot in the log; presumably something catastrophic happens and the
> disk isn't sync'd before the reboot.
I was going to suggest an nfs mount for /var/log, but then I noticed the
300mi issue ;-) Perhaps a usb drive mounted with the 'sync' option?
Failing that, maybe tail -f over ssh will tell you something.
Didn't terminals used to output to paper?
--Eric
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"I've often gotten the feeling that the only people who have learned
from computer assisted instruction are the authors."
--Ben Schneiderman
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