Dnia Fri, Mar 05, 2021 at 10:17:17AM -0500, Matthew Miller napisał(a):
On Fri, Mar 05, 2021 at 03:05:00PM +0100, Hans de Goede wrote:
> > mcelog.service loaded active running Machine
Check Exception Logging Daemon
> This is another one for which it is questionable to have it running, or is this a
machine with
> ECC RAM ? And even then I'm not sure if it adds a lot of value, or if just like
smartd it
> just logs some stuff into syslog (where normal users won't see it).
I disagree that those logs are useless -- I often help normal users, and
running commands to look back in the logs for problems is a common
diagnostic step. This could be better, of course.
They are useful. smartd even sends emails – that's how I was informed
about one of my disks dying, few weeks ago,
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