[PLUG] Devise a remote log

[Dick Steffens]

I have a Lenovo Thinkcentre M58P. It works fine until it doesn't. It's 
not a primary machine, but it is up 24/7. The problem is that at some 
point it hangs. The only way to get it to work again is to power it off 
and then restart it. I'd like to devise a log of some sort that I can 
run from another machine that will give me some idea of what was going 
on when it hung. I envision some kind of ping from my main machine to 
the troublesome one. I'm assuming I could use a script run by CRON (if 
that's saying it right). Is there something more useful than just ping?

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Regards,

Dick Steffens