Tag Archives: logging

Flashback: Remote kernel logging with netconsole for fun and profit

Have you ever had a machine that was a bit flaky? You know those ones that occa­sion­ally crash and don’t write any­thing use­ful into the log file. Some­times you can cap­ture those mes­sages with net­con­sole. Just revis­it­ing a small walk-through I wrote a while back. Remote ker­nel log­ging with net­con­sole for fun and profit

Remote kernel logging with netconsole for fun and profit

Have you ever expe­ri­enced hard lock­ups and seen no trace of the cause in your log files? Those sit­u­a­tions can be even more of a pain if you do not have phys­i­cal access to the machine since you will not be able to look for ker­nel oops on the con­sole. You could buy a ser­ial

Automatic session logging and monitoring with GNU screen for the paranoid.

Yes its been a while since I have checked in. Sorry I’ve just been too busy. But I have a great tip this time. Recently I had the need to do auto­matic ses­sion log­ging. A 3rd party was going to be log­ging into one of my servers to check out some soft­ware glitches that were