Re: [cobalt-users] Strange Server went down but syslog still running

[Gerald Waugh <gwaugh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 31 July 2002 04:31 pm, Chae wrote:
> Hi Yah,
>
> At 1.35am this morning the server died on us, it stopped serving email,
> http, ftp etcetera
>
> By the time we'd been notified a couple of hours had gone by - couldn't get
> in via SSH so resorted to the remote reboot switch within 5 minutes we were
> up and running again.

REMOTE REBOOT SWITCH????
Where did you get that?

> The servers been patched to the max with all the latest and greatest except
> the patch for the latest SSL vulnerability.
>
> When I checked all the logs I noticed that the server was still running
> because active monitor was still generating it's 15 min checks and even
> mailscanner switched itself down and restarted. Yet nothing else running?
> Went through all the logs and nothing obvious standing out - it just died
>
> :( When all the queued up mail started to filter through the logcheck
>
> reports showed exactly the same as the server logs, active monitor was
> working fine every 15 mins and nothing else was.
>

Active Monitor (swatch) should be trying to restart those services every 15 
minutes.
Check the control panel and make sure everything you use is turned on 
'checked'

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