Capture OOPS

[Ed Greshko]

Gilboa Davara wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-04-22 at 11:12 -0600, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote:
>>     Seems I've asked this before, but I'll be darned if I can find the 
>> answer somewhere in my archives.  I need to capture a kernel OOPS 
>> somehow.  I've got a server that seems to be trigger happy and locking 
>> up/crashing once every 24 hours or so.  The unfortunate thing is that 
>> I'm not there when it happens to look on the monitor and see if I can 
>> discern  anything from there (usually one of the other guys come in 
>> before me and they simply hit the reset button because they don't 
>> understand the gibberish on screen anyway.)  So, I need to figure out a 
>> way to capture that OOPS.  Since it's not send to syslog, I can't send 
>> it to another machine for logging.  What other methods are there of 
>> doing this?  This machine doesn't have a serial link that I can link up 
>> to another either.  So, anyone?
>>
>> -
> 
> Simple.
> - Connect the machine to another machine using a NULL serial console.
> - Add the following parameters to your grub:
> console=ttyS0 console=ttyS0,57600n8
> (Where ttyS0 is serial0, 57600 is speed and n8 is 8 bits, no parity)
> - Run cu [1, uucp] or minicom and log all the output.

I think you missed the first post that pointed out the system has no serial
port.  :-)

I think looking into "netdump" and "netdump-server" may be in order.