Re: [SLUG] Strange shut down

2002-11-07 Thread Yuri
:) Well i did see that article couple of weeks ago and they had raid with 4 disks in it consuming only 110W or so, so i got relaxed 'cuz it's a p133 and it has no power-hungry monsters like nvidia, etc But yesterday out-of-the-blue it almost blew the circuit and light was going dimmer and

Re: [SLUG] Strange shut down

2002-11-07 Thread Yuri
On Wednesday 06 November 2002 20:35, Michael Fox wrote: Quoting Peter Hardy [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Thu, 2002-11-07 at 09:13, Nikolai Razouvayev wrote: I'm not very experienced with Linux. Do I need to check some logs and if I need to, which ones and what should I be looking for in

Re: [SLUG] Strange shut down

2002-11-07 Thread Chris Barnes
I hate that...you make sure your machine is up for as long as possible to be on the top of the ranks on the Linux Counter site, but then you hit those damned keys. It still baffles me why that function is enabled by default on linux. its the absolute first thing I disable after a new install. It

Re: [SLUG] Strange shut down

2002-11-07 Thread Jessica Mayo
On 8 Nov 2002, Chris Barnes wrote: I hate that...you make sure your machine is up for as long as possible to be on the top of the ranks on the Linux Counter site, but then you hit those damned keys. It still baffles me why that function is enabled by default on linux. its the absolute first

Re: [SLUG] Strange shut down

2002-11-07 Thread Matthew Hannigan
Is it any wonder that your system stays up at all. Go take a look at the review of hardware power-supplies at Toms Hardware... I think you'll be For a sort of local equivalnet of tomshardware, try www.dansdata.com. He has a few power supply reviews, I bought topower brand on the

Re: [SLUG] Strange shut down

2002-11-07 Thread Nikolai
Chris, great advice, thanks for your help As a security tip I suggest you turn off all your services including SSH unless you really need it, and set your firewall to drop incoming icmp packets from your INTERNET interface I've done that first thing I installed the OS, that's why I kinda

Re: [SLUG] Strange shut down

2002-11-07 Thread Nikolai
Matt, Note the above checks are only reliable if you do them from a freshly installed instance. Have you got a spare partition? No I haven't got one but I can create one. Why would I need a spare partition? Thanks Nikolai -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info:

Re: [SLUG] Strange shut down

2002-11-07 Thread Nikolai
Michael, Is the said machine on a KVM switch? is it possible a Windows NT admin has hit CTRL-ALT-DEL to logon and then realised they had the wrong machine? No, it's a home office where I'm a sysadmin, a creative director, a project manager and what not :-) One machine is facing the Internet,

Re: [SLUG] Strange shut down

2002-11-07 Thread Chris Barnes
Yep, my girlfriend knows all about panicking in the morning...so do I...I'm always at the receiving end of the abuse which results from her panicking. On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 12:57, Nikolai wrote: Chris, great advice, thanks for your help As a security tip I suggest you turn off all your

Re: [SLUG] Strange shut down

2002-11-07 Thread Chris Barnes
On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 13:13, Nikolai wrote: well, a couple of times a screwed my system quite badly it simply froze, and since I'm always in X Window envioronment 3 finger salute was the only option to reboot, console wasn't accessable either (not that I know a whola lotta things about how

[SLUG] Strange shut down

2002-11-06 Thread Nikolai Razouvayev
Hi everybody, a quick question: This morning I walked into my home office and my gateway machine (Mandrake 9.0) was looking at me with the login screen. I didn't shut it down last night, it runs all the time allowing my other machine to get online. The other machine (also Mandrake 9) was

Re: [SLUG] Strange shut down

2002-11-06 Thread Tom
Subject: [SLUG] Strange shut down Hi everybody, a quick question: This morning I walked into my home office and my gateway machine (Mandrake 9.0) was looking at me with the login screen. I didn't shut it down last night, it runs all the time allowing my other machine to get online. The other

Re: [SLUG] Strange shut down

2002-11-06 Thread Yuri
Heya Yeah, it's either someone manually rebooted it or your power supply is getting sillly and needs to be replaced. It happened to me last night, box with 300W power supply and ummm 6 ide harddrives suddenly rebooted while i was at the prompt. All other boxes on the same power strip stayed

Re: [SLUG] Strange shut down

2002-11-06 Thread Nikolai Razouvayev
On Thursday 07 November 2002 09:18 am, Tom wrote: do you have anyone living with you? i know when i had roomates they would try to solve problems on their own and go to te gateway and screw things up and figure its a windows machine so all they have to do is reboot Well yeah I do have a wife

Re: [SLUG] Strange shut down

2002-11-06 Thread Chris Barnes
I've never heard anything like that before on a Linux machine. I know that I have experienced self reboots on Windows machines due to hardware problems (like busted memory or over heating CPU) but I would imagine that the Linux kernel would panic instead of rebooting your machine..but then again

Re: [SLUG] Strange shut down

2002-11-06 Thread Terry Collins
Nikolai Razouvayev wrote: Hi everybody, a quick question: This morning I walked into my home office and my gateway machine (Mandrake 9.0) was looking at me with the login screen. I didn't shut it down last night, it runs all the time allowing my other machine to get online. The other

Re: [SLUG] Strange shut down

2002-11-06 Thread Matthew Hannigan
If you suspect hacking, you might try rpm --verify -a and look for oddities. Also there are 'rootkit' checkers out there somewhere; google for 'em. Note the above checks are only reliable if you do them from a freshly installed instance. Have you got a spare partition? Matt -- SLUG

Re: [SLUG] Strange shut down

2002-11-06 Thread Michael Fox
Quoting Peter Hardy [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Thu, 2002-11-07 at 09:13, Nikolai Razouvayev wrote: I'm not very experienced with Linux. Do I need to check some logs and if I need to, which ones and what should I be looking for in the logs? Easiest way to see if it's been rebooted is with the