> -----Original Message-----
> From: centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Timothy Murphy
> Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2009 9:07 AM
> To: centos@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: What is the System Event Log?
>
> John wrote:
>
> >> My Dell PowerEdge T105 running Centos-5.2
> >> has started crashing fairly often (3 times in the last 2 hours).
> >> The message on the screen tells me to look at the System Event Log.
> >> Is this just /var/log/messages ?
> >
> > If you have OMSA installed you can check out those logs. Ipmi and
> > Dmidecode
> > as mentioned and check out linux.dell.com Wiki for support
> and diagnostic
> > tools.
>
> How do I install OMSA?
> I looked for OMSA* and omsa* packages (with yum) but did not
> find anything
You have to install the Dell Yum Repo
http://linux.dell.com/repo/software/
http://linux.dell.com/monitoring.shtml
http://linux.dell.com/projects.shtml
> >> Incidentally, wouldn't it be a good idea for /var/log/messages*
> >> to start a new file when booting?
> >
> > When it gets to a certain size limit it will rollover to a new log.
>
> I realize that.
> I'm just suggesting that it would be easier to read /var/log/messages
> if it started a new page on re-booting.
>
> > Lastly
> > you can send a mail to "linux-poweredge@xxxxxxxx"
>
> I'm not quite sure what you mean.
> Is this a Dell technical information site?
It is a Dell mailing List Like this one for technical help for Linux on Dell
Only.
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