For the last 3 mornings, my main Gentoo box has been locked solid. it
has no keyboard or mouse response and attempting to ssh in from
another box on the LAN gives "no route to host" errors. I've been
looking at logs to try to figure out what's going on and I think I've
narrowed it down to my back up script or rsync it self.
The script used paswordless ssh login and mounts a disk on the
secondary box and does a pretty basic rsync backup which then sends 2
emails to root. one mail is a summary of what it did and the other a
more involved report that includes a file list of all files deleted
or written. The backup takes about 18 minutes to complete and has
been running fine for 3 months. For some odd reason the backups have
been done but the mail hasn't been delivered until just now IA
received 3 days of reports all at once.
Checking /var/log/messages and "/messages.0 for the last 3 days shows
that syslog has been restarted at the exact moment that the short
summary shows it was sent. There is no more info written until I hit
the reset to reboot the machine.
Here are the first 3 lines (only pertinant information) from var/log/
messages.0:
$ sudo more /var/log/messages.0
Nov 28 00:18:32 MRK syslogd 1.4.1: restart.
Nov 28 20:37:21 MRK syslogd 1.4.1: restart.
Nov 28 20:37:22 MRK kernel: klogd 1.4.1, log source = /proc/kmsg
started.
And from the headers of the cronjob sumary:
Received: by localhost (Postfix, from userid 0)
id 0E3C47F97A; Fri, 28 Nov 2003 00:18:32 -0500 (EST)
Prior to the start of these symptoms I did an emerge sync and emerge
-u world. The only apps that could have effected this seem to be
shadow, glibc, wget and syslogd. etc-update did show a couple of
files but as usual I didn't accept changes to anything I had edited
myself. IIRC, there were 2 files, both having to do with syslogd
which I don't remember ever altering so after a quick look I accepted
the new file
Any help solving this would be appreciated. The box is generally very
reliable. Before this situation the box had been up 89 days.
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Regards, Ernie
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