Fedora Server Crashing

Craig White craigwhite at azapple.com
Fri Mar 31 01:30:12 UTC 2006


On Thu, 2006-03-30 at 15:10 -0500, Ki Song wrote:
> My Fedora Core 4 Linux Box (primarily used for a mail server: postfix) is
> crashing 3-4 times a day!
> 
> I looked at the messages log and I see the following unexplainable record in
> the log file:
> 
> crond(pam_unix)[22601]: session closed for user root
> 
> 
> Is someone trying to login to my server as root?
----
the evil crond

;-)

seriously, no - crond is a daemon that is supposed to run.

You will have to look deeper for the root of the problem.

Craig




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