<html> <head> <link rel=stylesheet href="style.css" type="text/css"> <title>collectl - Messages</title> </head> <body> <center><h1>Operational Messages</h1></center> <p> When something that may be of interest occurs, collectl calls an internal message reporting routine and assigns that message a status of <i>Informational, Warning, Error</i> or <i>Fatal</i>. The way collectl deals with these messages is controlled by several factors: <p> <ul> <li>If collectl is started as a daemon and the -m switch is specified, all messages will be written the the message log in the collectl logging directory, the default being /var/log/collectl. If this switch is not specified no messages are ever recorded and so it is recommended that this switch, which is already in the collectl startup script, not be removed.</li> <li>When run interactively, all messages except those of type Informational are displayed on the terminal.</li> <li>When run interactively and -m is specified, ALL messages are displayed on the terminal. When collectl is not providing the desired results and it is not obvious why, adding this switch can be helpful.</li> </ul> If a message of type Fatal is encountered, collectl will terminate. In all other cases it continues executing, often skipping what it was trying to do when the error occurred. </body> </html>
