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From: kumorek@apollo.HP.COM (James Kumorek)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: Browsing through error logs
Keywords: error_log, sys_error_log
Message-ID: <50767afd.20b6d@apollo.HP.COM>
Date: 19 Mar 91 19:47 GMT
References: <1991Mar19.143609.27112@ccs.carleton.ca>
Sender: root@apollo.HP.COM
Reply-To: kumorek@apollo.HP.COM (James Kumorek)
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Apollo Division - Chelmsford, MA
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In article <1991Mar19.143609.27112@ccs.carleton.ca>,
ardavan@ccs.carleton.ca (Ardavan Tajbakhsh) writes:
|> 
|>      This may sound like a silly question, but how does one go about
|> looking at the contents of /sys/node_data/system_logs/sys_error_log?
|> Currently when I try to "read" the file I get:
|>  
|> (CV) sys_error_log - requested object is in use from (stream manager/IOS)
|>  
|>                                     Ardavan <Ardavan@ccs.carleton.ca>

Try using /systest/ssr_util/lsyserr :

$ /systest/ssr_util/lsyserr
wednesday, march 6, 1991
    4:12:17 pm (EST)  disk error
      Winchester  Ctrl_# = 0  Unit_# = 0    Phys daddr = 556C: quit
while waitin
g for event (OS/time manager)
friday, march 8, 1991
    7:21:27 pm (EST)  system shutdown
    7:22:55 pm (EST)  system startup
tuesday, march 12, 1991
   12:43:39 pm (EST)  system shutdown
   12:45:11 pm (EST)  system startup
thursday, march 14, 1991
    1:06:42 pm (EST)  system shutdown
    1:08:08 pm (EST)  system startup

error totals:
   system startups        3
   system shutdowns       3
   disk errors            1


Jim Kumorek
Apollo Computer, Inc. - A subsidiary of Hewlett Packard
kumorek@apollo.hp.com