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© Virtual Access 2018
GW6600 Series User manual
Issue: 1.7
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9.5
System diagnostics
9.5.1
System log messages
System log messages comprise of a date, source facility, hostname, severity and
message description in the form tag: message.
9.5.1.1
Source facility list:
Facitity
Description
auth
Authorisation/security
authpriv
Authorisation (private)
cron
Scheduled jobs
daemon
Background daemons
kern
Kernel messages
local0
hotplug scripts
security
Same as auth
syslog
Internal syslog events
user
General user-mode application messages
Table 21: Syslog message severity list
9.5.1.2
Event severity list
The severities are ordered from most severe to least severe.
Level
Name
Description
0
emerg
System is unusable
1
alert
Immediate action required
2
crit
Critical conditions
3
error
Error conditions
4
warning
Warning conditions
5
notice
Normal but significant
6
info
Informational
7
debug
Debug-level messages
-
none
No priority
Table 22: Syslog message severity list
9.5.1.3
System log messages in RAM
By default, system log messages are stored in the system log in RAM.
To view the system log in RAM, enter:
root@VA_router:~# logread
Shows the log.
root@VA_router:~# logread |tail
Shows end of the log.
root@VA_router:~# logread | more
Shows the log page by page.