Sunday, March 6, 2016

Re: [LINUX_Newbies] log (in Linux)

 

On Sun, Mar 06, 2016 at 12:07:48PM +0100, 'highskywhy@yahoo.de' highskywhy@yahoo.de [LINUX_Newbies] wrote:
> Good morning
> sometimes like once a month a computer with Linux is crashing. All is
> frozen. But I am sure
> Linux is building up a logfile
> and after booting again I can read
> where was the problem.
> Is this right?

Yes, in /var/log

You might want to try messages, that is, /var/log/messages.

If there's no /var/log/messages it is probaby using systemd, in which case,
you have to run journalctl

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-use-journalctl-to-view-and-manipulate-systemd-logs

gives some information.

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