Re: [gentoo-user] app-admin/mcelog daily cronjob?

[Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>]

On 16/04/2014 18:14, Stroller wrote:
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> On Wed, 16 April 2014, at 4:52 pm, Tom Wijsman <TomWij@gentoo.org> wrote:
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>> There is no such indication in that reply. That is up to you to decide.
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> Well, I posted here looking for useful answers and perhaps a full explanation (like, of how this is needed beyond the system logger), not vapid one-liners. 
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> I guess I'll just file a vapid-one bug that my Gentoo system is generating these cron messages, rather than first trying to come to a understanding of the cause. Would that make the developers' lives easier? 
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> Stroller.
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mce is Machine Check Exception; it's a hardware trickery that watches
for and records faults in hardware.

Consider something like Dell's fancy monitoring softwares, the results
don't magically appear in syslog - you use Dell's client app to query
the hardware, figure out what the bits means then you can look-see what
is going on. mcelog is sort of in the same class of software, but it's a
generic interface.

You don't *have* to use it, the machines will run just fine without it.
You will lack some monitoring though that could be useful - that's your
call.

As for the cron job files, by all means file a bug. At a minimum you'll
get an answer as to what the dev thinks about that deprecation status.

-- 
Alan McKinnon
alan.mckinnon@gmail.com