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[realalien]

could somebody please tell me what (in what logfile) I should check out after a system crash? I can't see any obvious reason for my latest crash.

[alapo]

one good place to check out is /var/log/messages.

[sonichost]

And it never hurts to check the Apache error log also just in case something went wrong with Apache and it brought the server down.

/var/log/httpd/error_log