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Finding Error Messages
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Cindy Bartorillo)
Mon Nov 4 12:51:48 1996
Date: Mon, 4 Nov 1996 12:50:45 -0500 (EST)
From: Cindy Bartorillo <cindyb@erols.com>
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Don't know if this is a Linux question or a RH question....
Where do 99% of my error messages go? For instance, at bootup, since
the new 4.0 install, I get more than half a screen of similar error
messages at bootup, which I get to peruse for about .03 seconds, after
which they drop into the bit bucket. They're not in /var/log/messages,
dmesg doesn't show them, and Shift-PageUp doesn't bring them back.
Even after bootup, whenever a program I'm running throws an error, if
I can't catch it when it's first delivered, I'm outta luck, because no
log file seems to catch these errors. I could *swear* that the messages
file used to get a LOT more errors than it does now. About all it
collects now is some of the bootup, logins, and a laborious logging of
each ppp connection starting and stopping.
Am I overlooking a log file somewhere? Is there a general Unix strategy
for capturing error messages? And, while I'm at this, What is a
'segmentation fault' message trying to tell me? Is there any helpful
information to be gleaned from this message?
CindyB
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