Warren Togami wrote: > > During our meeting today we noticed that Videl appeared to be down. All > ports appeared to be closed, but ICMP ping packets were responding. > > Strangely though, when I got home Videl appeared to be working 100% > again. After checking the logs, I realized the Videl downtime was due > to a mistake I made 2 months ago! > > I had made a vserver enhanced kernel in order to run virtual server > partitions on Videl, separating mail, web and database servers into > their own security isolated partitions. The theory is that even if an > individual server is cracked, they cannot do anything to other vserver > partitions on the same box. > > 2 months ago I must have manually booted into this vserver kernel, found > it to be stable and went home, forgetting to make it the default > kernel. The power must have gone out for an extended period of time > today. When the server came back up, it booted the default Red Hat > kernel without vserver capability, meaning none of the web, mail or > database servers came up either. > > Ray noticed this and quickly fixed it. Thanks Ray! > > Moral behind this story? Yeah, it is unlikely that your Linux server > will ever need rebooting, but don't depend entirely on high uptime to > save you. Be sure to check that your server will reboot properly. > > Warren Togami > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > _______________________________________________ > LUAU mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://videl.ics.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/luau ##############
Hey No problem, Guys. See how much we all learned with that unintended lesson. "You a good teacher Warren." Good work Ray. Aloha! Al Plant - Webmaster http://hawaiidakine.com Providing FAST DSL Service for $28.00 /mo. Member Small Business Hawaii. Running FreeBSD 4.5 UNIX & Caldera Linux 2.4 & RedHat 7.2 Support OPEN SOURCE in Business Computing. Phone 808-622-0043
