[cobalt-users] RAQ3 - services.cgi Question

[Chae <chae@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

When you are in the control panel area of the Admin GUI you can click on 
restart services...when I do that and watch top I can see a services.cgi 
being called.
Now can someone tell me what services it actually restarts?

I've got a RAQ3 playing up which seems to disappear from the net for no 
apparent reason, all services are inaccessible - ftp, httpd, ssh, dns etc, 
the only way to get it back on-line is with a reboot from a remote start or 
by getting the colo to go in with a serial cable etc - the server is still 
running though none of the services seem to be working.
There is no set time for it doing this, i.e. during logrotations, after 
backups, it can go for weeks without incident then the next time it's once 
a day every day for 3 to 4 days.

I've checked all the logs for something suspicious, the RAQ's patched up 
with all the latest Cobalt patches, only thing not patched on that one is 
SSL - still hoping Cobalt will have that sorted though I'm not holding my 
breath. The servers also had the latest sendmail patch added from 
PKGMasters (thank you). Logcheck shows nothing out the ordinary and they 
come through on the hour every hour except when the servers down of course. 
Chkrootkit shows a clean bill of health, I've even added a wee cronjob to 
flush IPChains every 15 mins in case it's locking everyone out for some 
reason but that's not resolving the issue either. The only time the server 
is under any load is during the usual cron.daily routines and anti-virus 
checking, the server may peak to about 5 for a few mins then drops back 
down to the 1 to 0.5 mark and it then happily sits around about there until 
the next logrotation cycle starts. When the servers services have stopped 
working we've left the server site for over an hour at one point hoping 
that it would bring the services backup it's self via the active monitor.

I've asked the colo if there is any network problems which maybe stopping 
people from accessing the server or from stopping the servers services from 
reaching the outside world but they tell me everythings hunky dory.

Now the question was which services does the services.cgi script 
start...reason for asking was I thought I could call that in a cronjob and 
see if restarting services would stop it from disappearing. Or would I be 
better creating a little shell script that would restart httpd, ssh, 
sendmail, DNS etc individually or is this going to screw up the running of 
the machine. I've searched high and low through the archive to see if 
anyone has had similar experiences or if they've tried the same thing.

Any advise would be grateful

Thanks in advance

Chae