linux server keep freezing

egghead2001 · 02-08-2003, 01:06 PM

I'm running a linux server with redhat linux 7.0 vers. and it freezes about once or twice a week and has to be restarted. This happens while noones using it. Does anyone know what could cause this or should we just plan on restarting it a lot?

nxny · 02-08-2003, 06:48 PM

That is rather unusual.

Have you checked your syslogs? The last lines of your logfiles ( /var/log/messages ) would be of great help.

egghead2001 · 02-08-2003, 06:54 PM

no, I haven't checked those,. I'm just new to Linux. Thanks.

nxny · 02-08-2003, 07:05 PM

Would you post those so, one of us would be able to help you a little better?

What all services does this box run? http server? mail server?

egghead2001 · 02-09-2003, 03:13 AM

It's only running an http: server. I looked under the messages file and I don't see anything from the time I last logged in and the time it was restarted after freezing. Is there any other files that might have info. It could be anything couldn't it, bad cpu, bad memory, bad motherboard who knows?

nxny · 02-09-2003, 12:55 PM

Yes, we dont want to rule out anything, but before we blame the hardware, we have to be absolutely sure that it isnt a software issue. If you still want to dig into this, I'd be willing to help. Because I'm curious and hopefully we'll find something in the syslog.

egghead2001 · 02-11-2003, 02:46 PM

Yeah, I'm curious also what it causing this. Suprisingly my boss doesn't seemed overly concerned, even though the datas more important to him than me. He also hasn't bother to invest in something to back up the linux server. He says hes going to buy an external harddrive to transfer the data too later, I guess anythings better than nothing. Well what other files could I look at that might have info?

nxny · 02-11-2003, 02:55 PM

as I said, syslog would be where I would start. Usually /var/log/messages or similar.

Let say if the last line in your syslog ( before your system froze ) said something about trying to open an ssl connection over apache, that would point to the webserver logs.