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

[David Lucas <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 04:34 PM 7/31/2002, you wrote:
> 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?

try server technology
http://www.servertech.com
I used them for years on dos based machines connected to the modem line.
Where they had one product back then, now they have an array of products.

> > 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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