RE: [cobalt-users] raq 4 rebooting

["Tom Cameron" <tomcameron@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Fri, 17 Oct 2003, Tom Cameron wrote:
=>
=> > About 2 weeks ago my raq 4 just started rebooting itself. It
=> reboots about
=> > once a day. Sometimes it stays up for three days but most
=> often it reboots
=> > daily. The reboots are always at about 4am-6am but not any exact time.
=> >
=> > There are no entries in the logs that I can use to pinpoint
=> the cause. No
=> > sign of intrusion - I run chrootkit daily. Ive got all the
=> latest patches
=> > and Im pretty careful to keep them up-to-date.
=> >
=> > No sign of runaway proceses, too much swap, high load etc.
=> simply nothing I
=> > can think of that would cause the problem.
=> >
=> > does anybody have any idea what it could be or how I can solve
=> this one?
=>
=> Around 4 am the daily cron jobs run.
=> do you get any messages to admin indicating a problem,
=> high temperature, or low on memory?
=>
=> Gerald

No, nothing of the sort. Im aware that the machine will be under higher load
during these daily tasks, but interestingly it seems to complete all the
tasks without error and usually reboot afterwards. Also, Ive put no new
sites on that machine for about 8 months and it has been runing for 2.5
years with no problems.

Ive also moved some of these tasks to 4pm to try to spread out the load, but
its made no difference.

The only thing I see in the logs recently are a high number of port135
requests blocked by the firewall.

Tom