On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 5:36 PM, Jon Miller <<a href="mailto:jlmiller@mmtnetworks.com.au">jlmiller@mmtnetworks.com.au</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<p><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-AU">I'm looking for a way of finding out why a
particular process stopped yesterday. I've searched through all sorts of
logs ( the process log, syslog and messages) and can see nothing. Does anyone
know where I can look to find out about certain processes either failed or when
they went into a zombie state?</span></font></p></div></div></blockquote><div><br>Hi Jon,<br><br>That really depends on the process. Not all applications log messages using the standard syslog and then not all applications log ;)<br>
<br>If it was just some random program that does no logging of its own, then you aren't going to know if it had problems unless you have something else monitoring it (process accounting? strace? etc...)<br><br>Ryan<br>
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