Re: How to detect hard disk failure ?

From: Alexander Haderer (alexander.haderer_at_charite.de)
Date: 05/16/03

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To: "Pranav A. Desai" <pdesai1@cs.uh.edu>, Andy Farkas <andyf@speednet.com.au>

    At 09:27 16.05.2003 -0500, Pranav A. Desai wrote:
    >....
    >The other thing that I thought of doing is to capture /var/log/messages
    >for any errors regarding disks. But I have two problems with that.
    >1) I dont know how to do tail -f in shell script.

    Take a look at fetchlog, it was made just for this kind of job:

         http://fetchlog.sourceforge.net

    >2) I am not sure if messages gives all kinds of disk errors.

    disk error messages appear as kernel messages, and they are part of
    messages. See /etc/syslog.conf. If you try fetchlog think about a special
    logfile for kernelmessages only. Again: man syslogd, man syslog.conf, man
    newsyslog.

    with best regards,

             Alexander 

    -- 
Alexander Haderer             Charite Berlin - Germany
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