topic Re: Shutdown logs in Operating System - HP-UX

Shutdown logs

Dimitri Karagiannis — Fri, 24 Nov 2000 19:19:19 GMT

Hi everyone,

One of our clients wants to have a monthly report on all the downtimes our servers had starting from this month. Is there any file that is written that keeps track of everytime the server is shut down?

Thanks in advance,

Dimitri

Re: Shutdown logs

Kofi ARTHIABAH — Fri, 24 Nov 2000 19:31:17 GMT

Normal shutdowns are logged in
/etc/shutdownlog

for crashes, you would have to sniff around the /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log and /var/adm/crash

good luck

Re: Shutdown logs

Bill Hassell — Sat, 25 Nov 2000 22:14:39 GMT

/etc/shutdown may not exist so make sure it is created. shutdownlog will keep a record of all shutdowns, normal (ie, operator directed), powerfails, and system crashes. For useful information about crashes, you must setup /var/adm/crash (preferably pointing to a very big area since each crash dump can be 100% the size of RAM (pre-11.0) or about 25% RAM (11.0 and beyond).

The 1-line reason for a crash is not too useful except to identify a crash has occurred.

Re: Shutdown logs

Richard Darling — Mon, 27 Nov 2000 19:06:09 GMT

Bill, don't you mean that /etc/shutdownlog may not exist. /etc/shutdown will exist as a link to /usr/sbin/shutdown.