How To Install rasdaemon.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install rasdaemon.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.
What is rasdaemon.x86_64
rasdaemon is a RAS (Reliability, Availability and Serviceability) logging tool. It currently records memory errors, using the EDAC tracing events. EDAC is drivers in the Linux kernel that handle detection of ECC errors from memory controllers for most chipsets on i386 and x86_64 architectures. EDAC drivers for other architectures like arm also exists. This userspace component consists of an init script which makes sure EDAC drivers and DIMM labels are loaded at system startup, as well as an utility for reporting current error counts from the EDAC sysfs files.
We can use yum to install rasdaemon.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install rasdaemon.x86_64.
Install rasdaemon.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install rasdaemon.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install rasdaemon.x86_64
How To Uninstall rasdaemon.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2
To uninstall only the rasdaemon.x86_64 package we can use the following command:
sudo yum remove rasdaemon.x86_64
rasdaemon.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2
/etc/ras/dimm_labels.d
/etc/ras/dimm_labels.d/dell
/usr/lib/systemd/system/ras-mc-ctl.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/rasdaemon.service
/usr/sbin/ras-mc-ctl
/usr/sbin/rasdaemon
/usr/share/doc/rasdaemon-0.4.1
/usr/share/doc/rasdaemon-0.4.1/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/rasdaemon-0.4.1/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/rasdaemon-0.4.1/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/rasdaemon-0.4.1/README
/usr/share/doc/rasdaemon-0.4.1/TODO
/usr/share/man/man1/rasdaemon.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/ras-mc-ctl.8.gz
/var/lib/rasdaemon
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install rasdaemon.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.