RE: [cobalt-users] Diagnosing network freezes on Raq4?

["Dan Kriwitsky" <list1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> We have a server that has been relatively imperturbable.  It 
> has stopped chatting on the net twice in two days.  All 
> internal stuff seems to continue, as cron continues 
> processing its charges, internally generated email from 
> logcheck is submitted, the active monitor entries appear in 
> the appropriate logs, and mrtg seems to continue logging its 
> various datapoints. We can find no evidence of mischief afoot 
> and there have been no recent upgrades or installs (or even 
> site additions) on this particular box.
> 
> Any pointers on how to figure out what is making it stop 
> responding on all ports/services?  Also, is there a data 
> corruption risk when rebooting from the front panel or does 
> it shutdown daemons and filesystems properly?  Now if I just 
> had a 700 mile pole to push the button with <g>.
> 

/var/log/messages anything there? What do the various logs show? Maybe
/var/log/httpd/access or error for the time it shuts down. I'm guessing
you mean the http stops working.
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C2003 Dan Kriwitsky

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