[GRLUG] Rebooting linux server

Collin Kidder collink at kkmfg.com
Fri Jul 6 09:58:19 EDT 2012


On 7/6/2012 9:35 AM, Michael Mol wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 4:07 PM, Adam Tauno Williams
> <awilliam at whitemice.org> wrote:
>> On Tue, 2012-07-03 at 09:20 -0400, Michael Mol wrote:
>>> On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 8:24 AM, Collin Kidder <collink at kkmfg.com> wrote:
> [snip]
>
>>>> I'm not exactly a server administration wizard so what should I be looking
>>>> for to try to figure this out?
>>> Can you leave a laptop hooked up to the serial port and set serial
>>> port logging? Or even logging to a printer?
>> +1
> In all honesty, this bit of advice came from a "what would whitemice
> do without reliable disk logs?" moment.
>
I've since set up rsyslog to do remote logging to a second machine. Of 
course, now that I've done this the machine has been up for longer than 
a day so far with no hiccups. But, when it happens again I'll be ready. 
I have mcelog installed as well so any mce messages will be remote logged.



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