Re: [cobalt-users] RE: Raq3 Server Lockup

[Jay Kraft <jkraft@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Don't even have any large logs on this machine and never installed the update.

In fact, only a fool would update a working machine.

At 06:01 PM 10/14/2000 EDT, you wrote:
>>I just had a RAQ3 Server lock. No HTTP, Mail, or ping responses 
>>(request timeout). The front panel was also unresponsive. I did 
>>a cold-boot and it came back fine. There are no unsusal messages >in
>/var/log/messages . Does anyone know why this would happen?
>
>You didn't happen to install the latest RaQ3-All-System Release 3.0.1-6375
>patch from Cobalt's web site last week did you...?  The patch was for the
>stats program/logs, but Cobalt pulled the flawed update (again) only days
>after posting it to the world to corrupt RaQ3 users systems... 
>
>Turns out (as noted by Cobalt support): 
>
>>Thank you for contacting Cobalt Technical Support. The patch 
>>that had been pulled could potentially wedge the root partition 
>>if the access log was to big during the spliting of the logs 
>>every morning at 4:01 am...
>
>If you installed that patch/update, and your logs were too big, it would
crash
>the box...
>
>Good Luck
>David
>
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