here's an update
I suspect MySQL was involved. I found it today with a zombie that seems to
screw with the networking. FTP access was dead and you couldn't kill MySQL
- zombies suck - it was still serving web pages like a bat out of hell and
ssh was just fine. I rebooted cleanly and it's back to normal now. I was
running the version of MySQL that shipped with mandrake 7.0. I have upgrade
to the newest version so hopefully it wont happen again.
anybody else seen something like this?
thanks
Gavin
on 8/3/00 9:46 PM, Gavin Clark wrote:
> hi,
>
> I had a server crash today.
> it's back up now but I was wonddering if someone could shed some light on
> what happened.
>
> I'm not sure what cause the crash.
>
> You could ping it but none of the network services were responding: http,
> ftp , ssh (this was the killer for me because I control it remotely)
>
> couldn't log in from the console so I killed the power.
>
> When it came up my raid partition SWAP was screwed up and I had to restart
> the swap device and reboot.
>
> it's back up and running.
>
> here's some of the things that might have triggered it - don't know.
>
> 1. right before I had adjusted a user's crontab in vi - I might have srewed
> up the syntax or done something wierd in vi by accident
>
> 2. the DNS server - on another box - crashed.
>
> 3. it had been getting lots of web traffic.
>
> where do I start looking for causes?
>
> thanks,
> Gavin
>
