[cobalt-users] [RAQ4] Server Stops Responding everyday - unknown cause!

["Stephan Whelan" <stephan.whelan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I have a strange thing happen to my RAQ 4i recently.

On Monday 18th December at around 17:10 the server stopped responding to any
telnet, http, ftp or mail requests.  I was out of the country and did not
determine the server was down until late on Tuesday evening.  I could ping
the server but it would not respond to any other requests.  I got my ISP to
restart the server on Wednesday 20th in the morning, but the admin console
was showing a lot of error 500 (internal server errors) when trying to do
tasks.

Then at around 04:00am on Thursday the server stopped responding in exactly
the same way.  I got the server to be rebooted the next morning.

This has occurred every day since then.  This is of course making the server
un-usable!

I've checked my logs and nothing strange seems to be happening (although I'm
no Unix expert) and no unauthorised access seems to have occurred.  I got my
ISP to check this as well and they agree.

The strange thing for me is that the last time I accessed the server was
Friday 15th December and that was just to pick up some mail.  Between then
and the first crash I nor anyone else authorised to do anything on the
server touched the machine!  It just seemed to happen by itself!

Help!


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