[GRLUG] Rebooting linux server

[Michael Mol]

On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 10:25 AM, Adam Tauno Williams
<awilliam at whitemice.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-07-06 at 09:35 -0400, 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:
>> >> > 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?
>> In all honesty, this bit of advice came from a "what would whitemice
>> do without reliable disk logs?" moment.
>
> WWWD!
>
> "Local is good".  Serial ports are you best friends.
>
> And, BTW, there really is no such thing as reliable disk logs;  that is
> the nature of "crash".

Well, absent a systemic crash, disk logs are usually reliable for
diagnosing other things. :)

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