3.7. The system error log
Once you have all the devices configured in your system and your system is in production, you may encounter errors related to hardware during your normal day-to-day operations. AIX provides the error logging facility for recording hardware and software failures in an error log. This error log can be used for information purposes or for fault detection and corrective actions.
The error logging process begins when an operating system module detects an error. The error-detecting segment of code then sends error information to either the errsave and errlast kernel service or the errlog application subroutine where the information is, in turn, written to the /dev/error special file. This process then adds a time stamp to ...
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