Thanks ... I'm going in after a while to take a look. I appreciate your advice ... I'm breathing a sigh of relief!
~kari On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 9:50 AM, Jeremiah Bess <[email protected]>wrote: > If you know about the time it locked up, look through the /var/log/messages > during that time. The logs may have been rolled over since then, in which > case, they will be named .gz at the end. These are just gzipped files, which > you can copy to another location, and unzip. The logs might give you an > indication if it was a software-based problem. If the hardware caused the > issue, then you may not get anything in the logs, but could get lucky. If > you are not sure what you are looking at, feel free to post the logs here, > and we can take a look. > > Jeremiah E. Bess > Network Ninja, Penguin Geek, Father of four > > > On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 09:39, Kari Matthews <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I just had a guy call me and tell me they couldn't get on their (newly >> installed, courtesy of me) Linux server. It was on, but had "locked up" I >> guess. They rebooted and it's fine now. >> >> So now I need to go down there and try to figure out what went wrong. I >> have never had a linux box do that. Any ideas? Can someone give me a log >> tutorial? Where do I look to see what happened? >> >> Ugh. >> kari >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users >> Group. >> To post a message, send email to [email protected] >> To unsubscribe, send email to >> [email protected] >> For more options, visit our group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users > Group. > To post a message, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] > For more options, visit our group at > http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup
