Hello, I have been updating one of my test computers at work with the latest cooker for quite sometime now, and I have been having a problem that has been really tough to pinpoint, but has been present all along, so i figured it's now time to call in the dogs.
Here's what's happening. I use the computer to provide me with a high speed cooker and contrib mirror for all the computers that are running mdk at work and it seems that every week or so (for some reason i'm thinking it only happens on saturdays, but i can't really verify that) the machine stops authenticating any logins. I can't ssh in, nfs dies, the ftp server works if you log in annoymously, but if you give it a user name it dies. when i go back into work to fix it and try to log in i type a username and password, and then that terminal locks up. so i started paying more attention and it happened again this weekend on saturday sometime and i was digging through the log files and the last few entries in syslog.1 were May 26 04:01:00 host-134-170 CROND[6952]: (root) CMD (nice -n 19 run-parts /etc/cron.hourly) May 26 04:01:59 host-134-170 CROND[6970]: (root) CMD (nice -n 19 run-parts /etc/cron.daily) May 26 04:01:59 host-134-170 anacron[6973]: Updated timestamp for job `cron.daily' to 2002-05-26 and then the logs were rotated and the next entry in syslog is after the reboot on tuesday. does this mean that the rotation of the logs was the culprit? I'm not sure how to interpret that, so any help would be nice. -Elliott Martin
