Joe Zeff <joe(a)zeff.us> writes:
On 06/16/2013 07:52 PM, lee wrote:
> No, they explained what it is supposed to do and made invalid
> assumptions. Their point seems to be that it could be useful for
> instances when the logged output of mcelog helps you to figure out what
> might be wrong with your hardware.
Have you considered the possibility that there can be intermittent
errors that might or might not be hardware related and that having the
data from mcelog available could help you decide if it is or isn't
your hardware *before* there's a catastrophic failure?
Yes, it would require me to constantly check some logfile. Which
logfile that is, is not even documented. It might be /var/log/syslog
when you look at the mcelog.service file. Lots of things are being
logged there, and I usually don't look at that unless something isn't
working. I could make something that greps the logfile for something
mcelog might be logging, but what would I look for? And if this is so
critically important, why is it set up in such a way that this vital
information is never seen?
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