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2003-07-24 Thread sedwards
When he got to it, it had all sorts of error messages about VM and paging on the console. But he could not login so I had him reboot it. But apparently the logger quit storing messages in the messages file about 1 A.M., the next messages were the reboot messages at 18:00. How does it

Any way to stop a remote box gone crazy?

2003-07-23 Thread sedwards
Hello I have a remote machine running FreeBSD 4.8 that runs my internet radio station (http://www.itsallgoodradio.com) and it has gone wacky. It will be several hours before anyone can get to it to reboot it. I have a ssh login prompt that is still live, but anytime I try to execute a

Re: Any way to stop a remote box gone crazy?

2003-07-23 Thread sedwards
I get the same Segmentation fault when I try to run dmesg. I'm using the bash shell. Oddly enough I can run sh though. Another odd thing if I try to use cat with bash I get: -bash: cat: command not found but I get this if I run cat from sh: cat: no such device or address Thanks

Re: Any way to stop a remote box gone crazy?

2003-07-23 Thread sedwards
Quoting Rus Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wed, 23 Jul 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try cd / echo * Rgds Rus cd seems to work (I can cd to directories that I know exist, but get an error if I try to cd to a directory that doesn't), but echo always just returns *

Re: Any way to stop a remote box gone crazy?

2003-07-23 Thread sedwards
of humor. ;-) This is what happened: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:sedwards$ unset LD_PRELOADConnection to itsallgoodradio.net closed by remote host. Connection to itsallgoodradio.net closed. [EMAIL PROTECTED] sedwards]$ ssh itsallgoodradio.net ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote

Re: Any way to stop a remote box gone crazy?

2003-07-23 Thread sedwards
Quoting Rus Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED]: cd seems to work (I can cd to directories that I know exist, but get an error if I try to cd to a directory that doesn't), but echo always just returns * hmm strange...it could be the shell as echo * on mine does and ls Rus

Re: Any way to stop a remote box gone crazy?

2003-07-23 Thread sedwards
Quoting Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: In the last episode (Jul 23), Rus Foster said: cd seems to work (I can cd to directories that I know exist, but get an error if I try to cd to a directory that doesn't), but echo always just returns * hmm strange...it could be the shell