kernel logging

deathdodger · 09-16-2010, 09:11 PM

Hello everyone,

First i would like to apologize because I may be in the wrong section.

I would just like to ask why my red hat cannot log a segmentation fault in any of the log files located in /var/log. I purposely tried executing a C++ program that segfaults but nothing was logged.

Any information will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

Meson · 09-17-2010, 10:31 PM

Maybe this isn't helpful, because I really have no idea, but why do you expect the kernel to log information about your segfaulting program?

deathdodger · 09-19-2010, 09:58 PM

We have this project and the client says our system segfaults while if we run it in out units, it doesn't log anything

. We're trying to replicate what our client saw to debug our codes.

Meson · 09-20-2010, 10:41 PM

I think you can print out a stack trace when your program has a problem, but it's not the kernel's job. You need to throw some debugging output in your code and write to your own log file or stdout/stderr.