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[egatenby]

Hi,

A minor feature request: Can you please add the ability to see a linode's console log on the web, perhaps under the Utilities menu? When my linode is acting up, it would be helpful to see the console log. I do not always have access to ssh (due to work firewall, etc), but always have access to the web.

Thanks,

--Eric

[harmone]

Do this from inside your linode:

neo101:/var/www/public# ssh harmone@host91.atlanta.linode.com > data.txt

Then you (anyone) can browse to your textfile to read what is happening.
Ask again if you wish me to elaborate.

[egatenby]

harmone wrote:
neo101:/var/www/public# ssh harmone@host91.atlanta.linode.com > data.txt



The main reason I am asking this to be implemented by Linode is that it will always have the latest data, assuming that they just grab the logview output.

I could cron a command myself to grab it, but the best that it can get is 1 minute snapshots. Such a solution is very kludgy, at it's best.

If the kernel panics and the VM dies, I want to know why. As I said, I do not have access to ssh at all times, but I always have web access.

[harmone]

But if you run the command I suggested you will have a textfile that grows by itself in real time. You would only need to run the command once and the text file would just keep growing.

There could of course be a problem if you get a huge amount of console messages. Then the text file would grow extremely big.

EDIT 1:
btw: Is "logview output" the same thing as "console messages"?

EDIT2:
Kernel panics you say. Well. My suggestion would not work in those cases.

[egatenby]

harmone wrote:
Is "logview output" the same thing as "console messages"?


Code: % ssh myid@myhost.fremont.linode.com logview
myid@myhost.fremont.linode.com's password:


Showing last 250 lines from previous boot
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<logs removed>

Showing last 100 lines from current boot
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<logs removed>