Server Logs

[praveen..]

Hi,
One of my server went down, I dont know WHY.

can anybody please let me know how to find the logs so that i can know the reason? why the server went down?

Please suggest

Thanks

[Robert Walker_8 · Accepted solution]

Gday,

All Redhat/Fedora logs are in /var/log. I would suspect that this would be the case on SUSE and Mandriva et al.

syslog.conf is used to route log events to various files, normally the kernel stuff would go to the console - we redirect this to /var/log/kernel by modifing /etc/syslog.conf (RHEL) and making kern.* /var/log/kernel and adding kern.none into /var/log/messages.

However /var/log/messages is a good place to start.

Robert.

[praveen..]

server log says:

Jan 23 15:26:51 server_hostname kernel: Assertion failure in journal_next_log_block() at fs/jbd/journal.c:576: "journal->j_free >1"
Jan 23 18:19:53 server_hostname syslogd 1.4.1: restart.
Jan 23 18:19:53 server_hostname syslog: syslogd startup succeeded


what does it means?