syslog console log not logging SCSI problems

Jeremy Chadwick koitsu at FreeBSD.org
Thu May 15 09:46:33 UTC 2008


On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 10:14:01AM +0100, Nick Barnes wrote:
> One of our FreeBSD boxes has a SCSI controller and disk, which showed
> problems earlier this week.  There was a lot of of chatter from the
> SCSI driver in /var/log/messages and to the console.  However, the
> console is unattended and we only discovered the problem subsequently
> because /var/log/console.log didn't show any of the chatter.
> 
> console.log is otherwise working, and very helpful (e.g. it shows
> /etc/rc output at boot which lets us spot daemon failures).
> 
> We've rebuilt the machine now (fan failure leading to boot disk
> failure), so I can't report the SCSI chatter in question, but here is
> the dmesg and syslog.conf.  Any suggestions?

/boot/loader.conf, /boot.config, and /etc/make.conf would also be
useful.

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