topic Re: check system errors in Operating System - Tru64 Unix

check system errors

Adam Strobel — Wed, 27 Jul 2005 10:17:52 GMT

Hi

I have a HPUX 5.1b box and the last two mornings the system has been shutdown. Is the some commands I can run to find out what the system was reporting? I did a dia -R|more but it does not report anything for the last two days. One message that was on the controller was "shelf 2 has a bad power supply or fan, shelf 1 fixed"

Thanks,

Adam

Re: check system errors

Michael Schulte zur Sur — Wed, 27 Jul 2005 10:37:58 GMT

Hi,

is there a crash dump in /var/adm/crash or anything in /var/adm/messages
?

greetings,

Michael

Re: check system errors

Adam Strobel — Wed, 27 Jul 2005 10:46:12 GMT

Hi,

Michael

in my /var/adm/messages there was nothing for the last two days. in /var/adm/crash however I do have a crash-data.5 for today.

the other files I have in /var/adm/crash for today are:
binlogdumpfile
bounds
crash-data.5
vmunix.5
vmzcore.5

what files should I be looking at?

thanks,

Adam

Re: check system errors

Adam Strobel — Wed, 27 Jul 2005 11:37:47 GMT

attached is screen shots from my /var/adm/messages

--Adam

Re: check system errors

Ivan Ferreira — Wed, 27 Jul 2005 16:07:09 GMT

If you don't have crash data on /var/adm/crash, then you should look into the /var/adm/syslog.dated directory, you will find directories which names are dates. Enter into the directory that has the date of the problem, and check the log files, kern.log, daemon.log, etc.

You can also use the show power command at the SRM prompt, the alpha console:

>>> show power

Re: check system errors

Adam Strobel — Wed, 27 Jul 2005 16:12:09 GMT

thanks everyone!