Log Files

[Don Anderson]

What would be a good log to look in to see if and who cycled a thread. I

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[Michael Hertel]

The thread cycle event will be found in the process log.

It won’t tell you who.

If you have security audit logging turned on it maybe able to tell you who signed in about that time.

[Troy Morton]

If you are on UNIX and have access to the user home directories, you can search through the history commands there to see who cycled the thread.  BUT, this will only work if it was done from the comand line.  You might have to be root to do this as well, but here is the command I would use to try to find it:

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$ grep -lR “pstop” /home/*/history

This will show you a list of all user accounts who have had the word “pstop” in their command history.  You could get more fancy with your grep to search for the exact thread name too.

If it was done in the GUI, the previous reply regarding using the security log is probably you’re only hope.[/code]

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