Redirecting colsole output to file.

danimallv · 07-05-2005, 02:29 PM

We remotely administer a handful of RedHat ES 3 boxes. I'd like to somehow see if there are any error messages popping up on the console. Problem is getting a monitor to the particular location is going to be quite a mess. Is there someway to get all those messages to go to a log file?

I'm thinking we have some type of hardware issue and am looking for that output to point us in a direction for plan of attack.

Any help is appreciated.

-d

david_ross · 07-05-2005, 02:33 PM

If you are using syslog then take a look at /etc/syslog.conf

It is likely that they are already going to a file but that will show you where.

danimallv · 07-05-2005, 02:39 PM

Well.. I did set kern.* to go to /var/log/consle instead of /dev/console

Is that going to catch everything?

trickykid · 07-05-2005, 02:42 PM

You can also make it easy by setting up a central syslog (loghost) server where all your syslog logs can send logs to..

Check the man page for more details.

david_ross · 07-05-2005, 02:44 PM

It will catch all kernel messages. Remember to restart syslog after changing the config file.

If you "man syslog.conf" you'll see all of the available faclilities and priorities.