Post #170,922
8/25/04 1:23:03 PM
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Diagnostic program for Linux?
Can someone recommend a diagnostic program (preferably free or not too expensive) for diagnosing hardware on a Linux computer?
Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
Nightowl >8#
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Post #170,939
8/25/04 3:09:45 PM
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/var/adm/messages
These miserable swine, having nothing but illusions to live on, marshmallows for the soul in place of good meat, will now stoop to any disgusting level to prevent even those miserable morsels from vanishing into thin air. The country is being destroyed by these stupid, vicious right-wing fanatics, the spiritual brothers of the brownshirts and redstars, collectivists and authoritarians all, who would not know freedom if it bit them on the ass, who spend all their time trying to stamp, bludgeon, and eviscerate the very idea of the individual's right to his own private world. DRL
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Post #170,946
8/25/04 3:31:44 PM
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Re: /var/adm/messages
Huh?
Sorry, but I don't know what that means, Boxley.
Nightowl >8#
"A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop." -- Robert Hughes, Australian Art Critic, Writer
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Post #170,953
8/25/04 3:53:37 PM
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He means Linux does some of its own diagnostics
Look for a log in that location that should tell you more about your hardware and any problems Linux has had with it
~~~)-Steven----
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He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country..."
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Post #170,957
8/25/04 4:04:38 PM
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Ah
Thanks, that helps.
Nightowl >8#
"A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop." -- Robert Hughes, Australian Art Critic, Writer
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Post #170,976
8/25/04 5:37:50 PM
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Shouldn't that be /var/log/messages?
At least on Linux. I don't know of a recent Linux distro that uses /var/adm
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Post #171,226
8/27/04 11:49:08 AM
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If you don't know, don't guess.
/var/adm is a UNIXism. Linux != UNIX. \r\n Just so you know, here's my /var on my Debian mail server: \r\n \r\npeter@ariel:~$ uname -a\r\nLinux ariel 2.6.7 #1 Sun Jul 11 09:13:49 BST 2004 i686 GNU/Linux\r\npeter@ariel:~$ ls -l /var\r\ntotal 5\r\ndrwxr-xr-x 2 root root 288 Aug 27 06:25 account\r\ndrwxr-xr-x 2 root root 696 Aug 23 06:27 backups\r\ndrwxr-xr-x 13 root root 336 Aug 11 06:21 cache\r\ndrwxr-xr-x 34 root root 904 Aug 16 13:27 lib\r\ndrwxrwsr-x 3 root staff 72 Aug 16 14:45 local\r\ndrwxrwxrwt 2 root root 48 Aug 7 17:19 lock\r\ndrwxr-xr-x 23 root root 2160 Aug 1 06:52 log\r\ndrwxrwsr-x 3 root mail 192 May 25 12:29 mail\r\ndrwxr-xr-x 2 root root 48 Nov 6 2003 opt\r\ndrwxr-xr-x 12 root root 760 Aug 22 13:44 run\r\ndrwxr-xr-x 8 root root 224 Jul 20 00:46 spool\r\ndrwxrwxrwt 4 root root 104 Aug 16 14:54 tmp\r\ndrwxrwxr-x 12 root www-data 1328 Aug 18 08:39 www\r\n \r\n Note that /var/adm doesn't even exist. \r\n Brenda, your first port of call should be a file called /var/log/messages. It's a regular text file, so you can just load it up into a text editor. \r\n If you need to find certain text within /var/log/messages, you can do this at a shell prompt: \r\n grep sometext /var/log/messages \r\n "sometext" is the text you're trying to find. \r\n Hope this points you in the right direction.
Peter
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Post #171,251
8/27/04 12:43:32 PM
8/27/04 12:46:08 PM
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Thanks
I'll relay the info to John when he's ready. :)
Right now he's being stubborn and says he doesn't want any help. ;)
Heheh!
Brenda
Edit: He also says that he doesn't trust anything the computer tells him about itself because it's acting so screwy. Is he right not to trust it?
"A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop." -- Robert Hughes, Australian Art Critic, Writer
Edited by Nightowl
Aug. 27, 2004, 12:46:08 PM EDT
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Post #171,252
8/27/04 12:45:18 PM
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Good for him!
It won't last, though :)
Peter
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Post #171,254
8/27/04 12:47:49 PM
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Re: Good for him!
Good for him that he doesn't want help, or good for him that he doesn't trust the computer to tell him the problem? ;)
I probably edited mine after you posted this.
Nightowl >8#
"A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop." -- Robert Hughes, Australian Art Critic, Writer
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Post #171,258
8/27/04 12:57:43 PM
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Both, probably.
I'm feeling a bit inscrutable today.
Peter
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Post #171,259
8/27/04 1:00:51 PM
8/27/04 1:01:23 PM
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Hehehe... I can tell.
He figures he'll know more conclusively what's wrong when whatever piece of hardware that's causing the problems completely fails. THEN, he says, he'll replace it.
Meanwhile, Andrei keeps crashing, John keeps backing him up every other day or so, and John keeps rebuilding whatever he loses in Linux/etc when it happens.
When he's frustrated enough, I'll give him the print-out of your suggestion. :)
Nightowl >8#
Edit: Fixed spelling
"A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop." -- Robert Hughes, Australian Art Critic, Writer
Edited by Nightowl
Aug. 27, 2004, 01:01:23 PM EDT
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Post #170,987
8/25/04 8:45:32 PM
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It can poke itself.
Files in /proc tell you all sorts of interesting things. Also tools like lspci and dmesg.
Wade.
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Is it enough to breathe
Somebody rip my heart out
And leave me here to bleed
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