need more system logging

[mjbjr]

My logs just don't seem to provide much info, and seem small in size.

I'm having some hardware config problems, and while in other posts
I see in the forums have tons of info, my don't seem to be nearly as
big. And when they are of a decent size, they are frequently filled
with repeating junk. Not very helpful.

''/etc/metalog/metalog.conf' shows, in part:

maxsize = 100000
maxtime = 86400
maxfiles = 5


these bounce back and forth between 24:10 and 24:50 in duration
# ls -l /var/log/everything
total 52
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7930 Apr 29 17:00 current
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7348 Apr 24 23:00 log-2005-04-25-07:10:00
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7462 Apr 25 23:10 log-2005-04-26-08:00:00
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6277 Apr 27 00:00 log-2005-04-27-08:10:00
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9088 Apr 28 00:10 log-2005-04-28-09:00:00
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7191 Apr 29 01:00 log-2005-04-29-09:10:00


these seem to have gone past 'maxsize' set in 'metalog.conf'
# ls -l /var/log/kernel
total 588
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 63125 Apr 29 17:05 current
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 100110 Apr 29 17:01 log-2005-04-30-01:01:15
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 100110 Apr 29 17:02 log-2005-04-30-01:02:05
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 100110 Apr 29 17:02 log-2005-04-30-01:02:55
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 100110 Apr 29 17:03 log-2005-04-30-01:03:45
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 100110 Apr 29 17:04 log-2005-04-30-01:04:35


While my kernel logs are of a decent size, they are 99% full of this smbus crap,
which also blows out 'dmesg' is short order.

I'm getting about 30 of these a second:

Apr 29 17:13:05 [kernel] i801_smbus 0000:00:1f.3: Transaction (post): CNT=08, CMD=2c, ADD=5b, DAT0=4b, DAT1=00
Apr 29 17:13:05 [kernel] i801_smbus 0000:00:1f.3: Transaction (pre): CNT=08, CMD=2b,ADD=5b, DAT0=4b, DAT1=00
Apr 29 17:13:05 [kernel] i801_smbus 0000:00:1f.3: Transaction (post): CNT=08, CMD=2b, ADD=5b, DAT0=71, DAT1=00


How can I reduce repetitiveness, and get better info in my logs?

How can I get 'dmesg' to automatically do something like 'dmesg > /some_dir/time_stamp_dmesg_boot_info.txt' ?

thanks

[cbx550f]

Not directly answering your questions, but....

I have used metalog before, and after some frustration, I discovered that the logs are not saved to disk in realtime - they are buffered and dumped to disk periodically. I switched to syslog-ng and couldn't be happier.
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[mjbjr]

[desertstalker]

more or less you need to remove metalog from the startup lists too (use rc-update) and then add syslog-ng.