How to get System log files
Justin At the risk of pointing out the obvious, have you looked in var-log-messages. Lots of stuff is logged in there. If your system crashes and you reboot, the last (large) bunch of lines is the stuff that comes out when the reboot starts. But the lines immediately before that are the crashing system's last ghasp.
Here is what a message file looks like in the vicinity of a crash:
On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 16:38:29 +1000, Denis Potapov Actually, no they are not. Those addresses are local only, for the router. The router should tell you its internet address as...
Mar 8 08:23:57 valinuxl kernel: Kernel logging (proc) stopped. Mar 8 08:23:57 valinuxl kernel: Kernel log daemon terminating. Mar 8 08:23:58 valinuxl syslog: klogd shutdown succeeded Mar 8 08:23:58 valinuxl exiting on signal 15
Note: this system did not crash: I rebooted it into Windows XP for a while and then rebooted back to (Red Hat) Linux (9) at this point. If your system crashed, its last few messages would be above. Below is what a boot would look like.
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Mar 8 09:45:41 valinuxl syslogd 1.4.1: restart. Mar 8 09:45:41 valinuxl syslog: syslogd startup succeeded Mar 8 09:45:41 valinuxl kernel: klogd 1.4.1, log source =proc-kmsg started. Mar 8 09:45:41 valinuxl kernel: Linux version 2.4.20-31.9smp Linux 3.2.2-5)) #1 SMP Tue Apr 13 17:40:10 EDT 2004 Mar 8 09:45:41 valinuxl kernel: BIOS-provided physical RAM map: Mar 8 09:45:41 valinuxl kernel: BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable) Mar 8 09:45:41 valinuxl kernel: BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved) Mar 8 09:45:41 valinuxl kernel: BIOS-e820: 00000000000e0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved) ...
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