On Thu, 7 Feb 2002 22:44:02 -0800 (PST) "nate" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > <quote who="nate"> > > this is REALLY weird. > > > > i have a script that runs from a special server and does > > an > > > > ssh $server "apt-get -qq update ; apt-get -d -y -q -u upgrade" > > (as user root) > > > > i aborted the script during the process and it seems > > to have killed 3 of my servers! i don't get > > right after i hit submit i checked the servers again and > they recovered on their own ..all 3 are on the same LAN, > on 2 different switches..i noticed load went real high > on them(well, compared to normal, the load went to 1.8 or > something, which is nothing for a dual p3-800 server). > > and as im writing this they all went down again. !(#($ > > i just didn't kill apt-get fast enough.. > > ARGH. this is so weird. these systems are so fast > apt-get should be nothing for them. > > so i guess in the next 10 mins they will come back > and i will attempt to kill apt-get to keep them from > going out again..
Having never tried what you do, this is just a wild-assed-guess: what if, instead of running things in "rsh"-mode, you actually ssh into the box, and type: apt-get update && apt-get -d -u upgrade Maybe you'll see some error messages that -qq hides. -- +------------------------------------------------------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr. Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA http://ronandheather.dhs.org:81 | | | ! "As I like to joke, I may have invented it, but Microsoft | | made it popular" David Bradley, regarding Ctrl-Alt-Del | +------------------------------------------------------------+