From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32A63138A1F for ; Wed, 16 Apr 2014 15:40:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E0C4EE0AF7; Wed, 16 Apr 2014 15:40:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtpout.karoo.kcom.com (smtpout.karoo.kcom.com [212.50.160.34]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE352E0A8D for ; Wed, 16 Apr 2014 15:40:05 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.97,872,1389744000"; d="scan'208";a="75340134" Received: from unknown (HELO compaq.stroller.uk.eu.org) ([213.152.39.89]) by smtpout.karoo.kcom.com with ESMTP; 16 Apr 2014 16:40:04 +0100 Received: from [192.168.11.101] (unknown [192.168.11.101]) by compaq.stroller.uk.eu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7D3EAA3AB for ; Wed, 16 Apr 2014 16:33:42 +0100 (BST) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 7.2 \(1874\)) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] app-admin/mcelog daily cronjob? From: Stroller In-Reply-To: <20140416164407.0e2b1ab8@gentoo.org> Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2014 16:39:22 +0100 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: References: <931458D2-51AE-47CF-97B2-8DD1EFBBE56A@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> <20140416164407.0e2b1ab8@gentoo.org> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1874) X-Archives-Salt: bf093af9-bee2-41cf-87cd-77af181b1278 X-Archives-Hash: fd54eed2884a4e58ae4a160405f9d776 On Wed, 16 April 2014, at 3:44 pm, Tom Wijsman = wrote: > On Wed, 16 Apr 2014 14:39:16 +0100 > Stroller wrote: >=20 >> What is mcelog, and why do I need it, please? >=20 > Machine check exception logger; iotw, it logs hardware errors. Ok, ignoring everything else that I wrote in my previous message, that = this package appears to be generating daily errors=85=20 your contention is that I don't need it, because my other machine is = running fine without it? Stroller.