[Techtalk] Diagnosing server problems
R. Daneel Olivaw
linuxchix at r-daneel.com
Thu Sep 29 16:42:10 EST 2005
Hi,
> Given that this is a production server with clients using it, I'm not
> going to start learning how to install things on it! I do have a
> couple other machines I can play with, but they're running different
> distros, SuSE 7.3, and Debian 3.1. Is atop likely to help me enough
> that I should work around this?
Well, atop not only shows system status as 'top' (well, quite better
than top), but also can log continuously system activity into a log file
you may 'playback' later. This could show you system activity during the
outage after you can log in again. 'atop' runs as a service by default.
I remember I downloaded redhat rpms and installed them smoothly. The
only tricky part, is finding the way to read old logs again. They are
stored somewhere in /var/log I think ... need to check at work today.
bye,
R. Daneel Olivaw,
The Human Robot Inside.
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