Fun with logs

If you have ever been involved with log analysis, you probably had the experience to look at a log entry and find it so useless and so weird that your only reaction was to laugh. Today I had this experience multiple times while looking at some Extreme logs (private information removed)…

Aug 11 09:11:19 xx MSM-B HAS TAKEN OVER AS THE MASTER
Aug 11 09:11:19 xx Free Entry Not Available
Aug 11 09:11:19 xx null pif ? exit! 0
Aug 11 09:11:19 xx eaps_runtime.c: Bug!

Check out the explanation for the last one: “This message indicates a software error and should never appear.”.. Priceless. The log analysis web site has some funny entries too.

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