errord(8) — Reliant UNIX 5.44c4

errord(8)                                                         errord(8)

NAME
     errord - log system state and errors

SYNOPSIS
     /sbin/errord

DESCRIPTION
     errord performs the following functions:

     1. reads system log entries from /dev/error

     2. formats, compresses, and saves the entries in
        /var/adm/error/errfile.current.Z

     Since errord compresses its output file, it cannot append to an exist-
     ing error file. If errord is started and
     /var/adm/error/errfile.current.Z already exists, it will be moved to
     /var/adm/error/errfile.previous.Z.

     errord is normally invoked at boot time by the /etc/init.d/errord sys-
     tem startup script. This script saves old error files with names of
     the form /var/adm/error/errfile.MM-DD-hh:mm.Z where MM, DD, hh, and mm
     is the month, day, hour, and minute.

     Error log entries are written to the log file in a fixed format
     designed to be both readable in itself and easily parsed for further
     processing. A formatted entry consists of two sections. The header
     contains pairs (identifiers, value), and the data section contains a
     simple hexadecimal dump of operating system structures that fully
     describe the error condition.

     The header identifiers are:

     len        The number of bytes of data in the DATA section of the log
                entry.

     time       The time at which the entry was logged.

     type       A high level classification of the error.

                ETNONE

                ETGOTS   system startup message

                ETSTOP   system stop message

                ETSOFT   a software condition caused this entry

                ETHARD   a hardware condition caused this entry






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                ETMEDIA  a disk or tape media fault caused this log entry.
                          This type of entry contains a fixed format DATA
                          section so that generic fault analysis software
                          may examine the error histories.

     severity   An indication of just how bad things are.

                ESNONE

                ESNOTE   informational

                ESWARN   warning, better pay attention

                ESERROR  recoverable error

                ESPANIC  the subsystem described has to become unavailable

                ESCONT   continuation of a previous message

                ESCOR    correctable media fault

                ESUNCOR  uncorrectable media fault

     entity     A general description of what produced the log entry.

                EENONE

                EEDISK   disk controller/media

                EETAPE   tape controller/media

                EECTLR   other controller/adaptor

     name       A specific device or subsystem name.

     prog       The name of and arguments to the log entry formatters that
                analyze and format the log entry.

     desc       A text string describing the log entry.

FILES
     /dev/error
          pseudo-device giving access to kernel error log

     /var/adm/error/errfile.current.Z
          error log file

     /var/adm/error/errfile.previous.Z
          previous error log file

     /etc/init.d/errord
          system startup script


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     /var/adm/error/bin
          directory containing log entry formatters

SEE ALSO
     compress(1), zcat(1), error(7), pyriosall(8).

















































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