On Sun, 2010-08-15 at 02:00 -0400, Borden Rhodes wrote: > Good morning, > > I'm going to list some of the frustrations I've been having with > troubleshooting Linux's quirks, crashes and problems in hopes that someone > may > be able to help me (and the community) become better bug reporters and > troubleshooters.<snip> Very interesting and helpful post. Thank you. I've snipped most of it out for the sake of those for whom long emails are a problem or expensive.
As someone without deep troubleshooting experience, I'll be curious to see the responses. The only thing I can help with is the old log information. Linux usually rotates the logs. As I'd imagine you've seen, you can find compressed versions of the logs, e.g., messages.1, message.2.gz - John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]

