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 :) -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel