Elliott Martin wrote on Thu, May 30, 2002 at 03:52:29PM -0700 :
> 
> and then the logs were rotated and the next entry in syslog is after the
> reboot on tuesday. does this mean that the rotation of the logs was the
> culprit? I'm not sure how to interpret that, so any help would be nice.

Post the results of 'df -h'.  My first guess is that you're running low
on disk space (in / or in /var if /var is a separate partition) and when
it's compressing some big log file (apache maybe), it the temp files run
out.

Having said that, there is one guy I've talked to online who has a
problem similar to yours.  In his case, he has a parallel port zip drive
and I am working to find out what exactly would be his problem.  It may
wind down to him going into /etc/cron.weekly and running everything in
there until something fubars.  That might not be a bad idea in your case
as well.

Blue skies...           Todd
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UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because 
  that would also stop you from doing clever things. -- Doug Gwyn
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