log files and its uses

[S.Santosh]

we have a HP-UX server running on 11.23 the server goes down on its on suddenly.which log file can we access to see what caused the system to shutdown...

may be this is very simple but am a beginner to this profile

Thanks.

[karthik_in83]

check this,it will help you...

/var/adm/syslog/syslog.log

All events are stored in /var/opt/resmon/log/event.log file

by KK

[MarkSyder]

I use 11.11, so apologies if anything has changed.

Check /var/adm/syslog/OLDsyslog.log - the present one will only show you what has happened since the reboot.

Also check:

/etc/shutdownlog (in case someone shut the server down, rather thn it crashing)
/var/adm/crash
/var/tombstones

Mark Syder (like the drink but spelt different)