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HurlingDurling , 10 months ago to linux in What do i look for in logs

When I look a the logs, I’m mostly looking for as least knots as possible, but also to make sure they are cedar, pine, or oak depending on the project.

Oh shit, this isn’t the carpentry community. NVM then

couscouscivil , 10 months ago

lol!

Thanks, you are the reason I look at comments.

lauha , 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

When I am reading the logs, I usually check who was the last seaman in charge when the ship crashed through the pier.

Atemu , 10 months ago to linux in What do i look for in logs

The picture made me lol :D

mvirts , 10 months ago to linux in What do i look for in logs

If you know the times of the crash, check whatever is logged right before and after

couscouscivil , 10 months ago to linux in What do i look for in logs

grep -Ri ‘error/|warning’ /var/log/

Then you can further pipe ‘grep’ or ‘grep -v’ based on what you see or for a specific time.

badbytes , 10 months ago to linux in What do i look for in logs

On Linux systems running systems I usually use the journalctl tool to look at messages. Ex.

journalctl --list-boots journalctl --since=“2012-10-30 18:17:16”

Looking for anything obvious.

lemmy OP , 10 months ago

I’m -to be honest- quite the noob. What is obvious?

oldfart , 10 months ago

Anything looking like this: i.stack.imgur.com/RMcUY.jpg

Anything saying “error” or “fatal” in the kernel log.

It’s quite likely that you will not find anything because the machine reboots before it can write to disk. In that case, I’d start with memtest86.

Protip: view the logs in vim, it highlights errors in red.

lemmy OP , 10 months ago

Alright. That is what i see on my screen.

Penguincoder , 10 months ago to linux in What do i look for in logs

You know what the various logs are, that’s good to help out. So you have any crash dumps enabled? I think on Debian (what promox is based on), you have to install kdump tools and reboot. Then it should cause a the kernel to log a dump file you can read with crash if it’s a kernel crash and not something else.

lemmy OP , 10 months ago

Ok will do this. It chrashed again. And I need this thing up and running and keep running.

Interstellar_1 , 10 months ago to linux in What do i look for in logs

I do this all the time when I look at logs, I don’t even really know why

mvirts , 10 months ago to linux in What do i look for in logs

Pill bugs, moss, snakes, etc.

robinj1995 , 10 months ago to linux in What do i look for in logs

A good place to start because it’s a likely culprit is anything mentioning “OOM” (which refers to Out Of Memory)