[olug] kernel panics

[Vincent]

Don't put it in the startup script.  That couls be overwritten if the rpm is upgraded.  This is the file you want to add the option
to:
/etc/sysconfig/syslog

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Trent Melcher" <tmelcher at trilogytel.com>
To: "Omaha Linux User Group" <olug at olug.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 3:18 PM
Subject: RE: [olug] kernel panics


> Make sure you have the -r option in the syslog startup script, so it knows
> to listen for logging from remote machines.
>
> If the 7.3 startup is the same, just add it to the line "daemon syslogd -m
> 0 -r"
>
> Trent
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: olug-bounces at olug.org [mailto:olug-bounces at olug.org]On Behalf Of
> Ryan O'Rourke
> Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 2:36 PM
> To: Omaha Linux User Group
> Subject: RE: [olug] kernel panics
>
>
> On Tue, 2003-06-03 at 14:23, Trent Melcher wrote:
> > I have never tried that,  All I do is on the remote machine (logger) I
> send
> > all kern.*      /var/log/kernel.log
> > I dont break out each box to a specific file, since logger tags the
> specific
> > messages from each box with the hostname it came from.
>
> Great. Thanks for all your help everyone. This should make things easier
> in the future whenever kernel panics occur.
>
> As a summary:
>
> I have not yet run memtest-86 on the machine, (I'm kind of afraid to
> reboot the thing right now) but I am guessing there is a memory module
> error causing the kernel panics.
>
> The 'locate' errors I was getting somehow fixed themselves and are not
> reoccurring.
>
> I have edited /etc/syslog.conf on linux1 to log all kernel messages
> remotely to linux2 like so:
> kern.* @linux1
>
> I have edited /etc/syslog.conf on linux2 to take all kernel messages
> from linux1 and log them like so:
> kern.* /var/log/kernel.log
>
> -- Ryan
>
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