RE: [cobalt-users] RAQ4 Web Light goes out and no network response

["Michael Aronoff" <ma@xxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 29 May 2003, Bill K wrote:
> I have been using this RAQ 4 for about a year now. It is hosted at a
> co-location here in Houston.
>
> This past Tuesday, the server stopped responding. I couldn't even ping
the
> system. I had someone go to the NOC to check it out and it was running
fine
> it seemed, except the web light on the case was not lit. The server
was
> rebooted from the control panel and LCD screen on the outside and that
> fixed the problem.
>
> This morning, the problem occurred again, the same thing, but a
different
> time. Both times, I checked some of the logs and everything on the
system
> such as the cron jobs were running normally during the down time. The
only
> thing I can see wrong was that the web light was off.
>
> Has anyone experience a problem like this, or know what it could be?
What
> makes the web light go off/on?

I had the same problem.  I never really figured out exactly what was
causing it but it seemed that the server was getting overloaded.  I
moved webalizer to it's own cron a few hours before the default cobalt
cron.daily at 4am and it has stopped happening.

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Michael Aronoff
Calabasas, CA
 
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