Hi,

I have a remote machine that is a file server and a web server. I admin it via Webmin and SSH.

About once every 24-hours, it locks up and I don't know why. Where should I start? Is there a log file for crashes?

This is a little frustrating for me since I spent a lot of time upgrading this from Windows because I had to reboot windows once every 10 days and now I have to reboot every day.

RK

What distro is this server based on and are your running cron jobs on it.

Did you check the logfiles, is there a pattern, were you using the same commands/programs when the freeze happened? Did you eliminate the possibility of hardware failure? etc.

Debian Woody 2.2.20-idepci - It's a fresh install (Saturday) and I have not added any Cron jobs. If there are any there, they were put there by the installer.

The only scripts running at boot-up are:

Apache, ATD, cron, dns-clean, hostname.sh, ifupdown, inetd, klogd, makedev, networking, nfs-common, nfs-kernel-server, noip, portmap, ppp, rmnologin, samba, ssh, sysklogd, webmin and wu-ftpd.

Processes running right now (75 minutes since last power cycle):
Process ID Owner Command
1 root init [2]
2 root [kflushd]
3 root [kupdate]
4 root [kswapd]
5 root [keventd]
111 root /sbin/dhclient-2.2.x -q eth0
186 root /sbin/syslogd
189 root /sbin/klogd
201 root /usr/sbin/inetd
207 root /usr/sbin/nmbd -D
209 root /usr/sbin/smbd -D
215 root /usr/sbin/sshd
721 root /usr/sbin/sshd
723 root -bash
223 daemon /usr/sbin/atd
226 root /usr/sbin/cron
230 root /usr/sbin/apache
435 www-data /usr/sbin/apache
436 www-data /usr/sbin/apache
437 www-data /usr/sbin/apache
438 www-data /usr/sbin/apache
439 www-data /usr/sbin/apache
680 www-data /usr/sbin/apache
681 www-data /usr/sbin/apache
244 root perl /usr/share/webmin/miniserv.pl /etc/webmin/miniserv.conf
737 root [miniserv.pl <defunct>]
743 root perl /usr/share/webmin/miniserv.pl /etc/webmin/miniserv.conf
744 root /usr/share/webmin/proc/index_tree.cgi
748 root sh -c ps -eo user,ruser,group,rgroup,pid,ppid,pgid,pcpu,vsz,nice,etime ...
749 root ps -eo user,ruser,group,rgroup,pid,ppid,pgid,pcpu,vsz,nice,etime,time, ...
282 root /sbin/dhclient-2.2.x -q eth0
286 nobody /usr/local/bin/noip2
293 root /sbin/getty 38400 tty1
294 root /sbin/getty 38400 tty2
295 root /sbin/getty 38400 tty3
296 root /sbin/getty 38400 tty4
297 root /sbin/getty 38400 tty5
298 root /sbin/getty 38400 tty6

As far as hardware failure..... This was running fine (but slow) as a Window's server. The only thing done to it was to blow out the dust right before the installation of Woody.

As far as log files.... ummmm.... Well..... ummm..... that's what I'm asking you guys.... Where do I start (Where are they)? I don't see anything but the normal system logs.

RK

the log files are in /var/log

if it crashes at a certain time during the day then it may be a problem with a cron job