On 07/17/2013 03:36 PM, Alexey I. Froloff wrote:
On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 03:08:59PM +0200, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
> Then engineer asks to run "tail /var/log/messages".
> Customer says: "I see
> cannot open ‘/var/log/messages’: No such file or directory
> message".
And this happens every time in, say, Debian. Great, isn't it?
> Engineer asks to run journalctl.
> Customer says: "I see 'Input/output error' message".
How would /var/log/messages file help in case of a corrupted
filesystem/disk?
Are you trying to say that system log is generally useless for
troubleshooting? Heh :)