errors(1) CLIX errors(1)
NAME
errors - Generates a report from an error log file
SYNOPSIS
errors [-hnsrb] [-f file] [-z "time"] [-t "time"] [-i types] [-e types]
FLAGS
-h Displays a help screen.
-n Reports errors for a system other than the current system.
The errors command prompts for the network address,
username, and password. The error logging file for that
system will be copied to /usr/tmp/errlog on the current
system. This flag will not work with the -f and -r flags.
-s Reports the number of errors per device and per error type
on a system. This flag can be used only with the following
flags: -n, -t, -z, and -f.
-r Instructs the error daemon errord to send error messages to
the error log file and to errors for immediate display.
This flag can be used only with the -i, -e, and -b flags.
-b Gives an abridged version of the error logging report. This
flag cannot be used with the -s flag.
-f file Specifies the log file to be used. The default file is
/usr/adm/errlog. This flag will not work with the -n and -r
flags.
-t "time" Specifies the date and time to start the report. The value
of time must be enclosed in quotation marks. This flag will
not work with the -r flag. These are examples of valid
times:
yesterday 13:34
28-feb 1990 12:01
12/25/90 10:30
-z "time" Specifies the date and time to end the report. See the
examples above. This flag will not work with the -r flag.
-i types Includes only the error types specified by the value of
types in the report. Valid types are device, user, panic,
sysmsg, memory, slave, disk, tape, floppy, asnc, scan,
parallel, digitizer, timeout, security, stray, optic, soft,
retry, and hard. If multiple types are specified, they must
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be separated by commas and/or spaces; if spaces are used,
the entire types string must be enclosed in quotation marks.
This flag will not work with the -e and -s flags.
-e types Excludes only the error types specified by the value of
types from the report. Valid types are device, user, panic,
sysmsg, memory, slave, disk, tape, floppy, asnc, scan,
parallel, digitizer, timeout, security, stray, optic, soft,
retry, and hard. This flag will not work with the -i and -s
flags.
DESCRIPTION
The errors command generates a report from an error log file. The report
is sent to stdout. If no flags are specified, errors reports all entries
in the /usr/adm/errlog file on the current system.
EXAMPLES
1. To report all errors in the error log file:
errors
2. The result of the following command prompts the user for the system to
connect to and a username/password combination to use. That system's
error log file is then placed on the current system in the file
/usr/tmp/errlog. The report will contain only the disk and memory
errors which occurred since yesterday at noon.
errors -n -t "yesterday 12:00" -i disk,memory
FILES
/usr/adm/errlog System error log file.
/usr/tmp/errlog Temporary error log (for errors from another system).
NOTES
Only systems with a 4.0 (partition 4, modifier 0) disk partition will log
system starts, stops, asserts, cmn_errs (sysmsg-type errors) and panics.
These types of errors may not be logged if the system boots with a large
number of errors.
All numbers appearing in the error log report are in hexadecimal numbers
except the date, time and sequence numbers.
CAUTIONS
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It is recommended to run this command from the root account.
DIAGNOSTICS
If errors encounters a problem, it displays a message before exiting.
Most problems can be traced to running errors from an account other than
the root account.
EXIT VALUES
The errors command always exits with a value of 0.
RELATED INFORMATION
Commands: errord(8)
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