Server Crash

[Smith, Albert]

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> Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2005 11:42 AM
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> Subject: Re: Server Crash
> 
> This could be either a drive going bad, or out of free space. 
>  Try rebooting in single user mode, and "df" to see if you 
> have any filled partitions.  I always suspect /var/log/ is full.
> 
> Do you hear any strange noises from the spinning hard drive?
> 
> On Thu, 2005-09-22 at 11:25, Jai Rangi wrote:
> > Hello,
> > I got a strange problem,
> > My server which is also router, is crashing way too often 
> since yesterday.
> > One it is down, all the network is down, I cant logon even from 
> > console. Any idea where should I look for the problem.
> > 
> > Thank You,
> > -Jai
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Is the server crashing like just shutting off on it's own with no
shutdown of the process's or is it getting a kernel panic?

I would setup a netdump server and starting tracking the information and
getting the core files and analyzing those.

Albert Smith
Sr. Unix Systems Administrator
HPCSA, RHCT  
Genex Services
440 E. Swedesford Rd.
Wayne, PA 19087
albert.smith at genexservices.com
(610) 964-5154