On 16/04/2014 18:14, Stroller wrote: > > On Wed, 16 April 2014, at 4:52 pm, Tom Wijsman <tom...@gentoo.org> wrote: >> >> There is no such indication in that reply. That is up to you to decide. > > Well, I posted here looking for useful answers and perhaps a full explanation > (like, of how this is needed beyond the system logger), not vapid one-liners. > > I guess I'll just file a vapid-one bug that my Gentoo system is generating > these cron messages, rather than first trying to come to a understanding of > the cause. Would that make the developers' lives easier? > > Stroller. > > > >
mce is Machine Check Exception; it's a hardware trickery that watches for and records faults in hardware. Consider something like Dell's fancy monitoring softwares, the results don't magically appear in syslog - you use Dell's client app to query the hardware, figure out what the bits means then you can look-see what is going on. mcelog is sort of in the same class of software, but it's a generic interface. You don't *have* to use it, the machines will run just fine without it. You will lack some monitoring though that could be useful - that's your call. As for the cron job files, by all means file a bug. At a minimum you'll get an answer as to what the dev thinks about that deprecation status. -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
