On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 04:08:50PM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello! > > Do you know of any software or tool that can help me know why a server > crashes?
Yeah, the Linux kernel... :) > Something like a server log that logs what the server does and records > things until the minute that it crashes. And probably what caused it to > crash? > There obviously is already a server log, and most major daemons running on a server will usually make their own log files that tell what's going on with them. > Obviously it won't be able to exactly tell me why a server crashed but at > least I'll know the last process that might have caused it. Unless a process is setuid root or otherwise does funky things to the system there is no program that can crash the system. Linux will prevent that. Properly administered Linux systems should have few setuid root programs hanging around, so you can normally narrow down the culprits to a few. If your system goes down due to a network-related DoS there should usually be evidence of that in your firewall logs, or if you use netflow, the records kept by netflow. -- Rafael R. Sevilla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> +63(2) 8177746 ext. 8311 Programmer, Inter.Net Philippines +63(917) 4458925 http://dido.ph.inter.net/ OpenPGP Key ID: 0x5CDA17D8 Heute die Welt und Morgen das Sonnensystem! _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
