Re: Server failure

2001-04-29 Thread scott.list
David et.al.: I'm normally running 97% idle, hopefully I'm not hitting the ceiling, maybe I am. Top is the only thing I know to use to monitor memory, processes, etc. Can you/anyone recommend something I can run to check such items besides top? It's not very friendly to capturing to text files

Re: Server failure

2001-04-28 Thread shorton
OK. How would I turn on console logging? Thanks very much for the help, Scott - Original Message - From: "Richard Potter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, April 27, 2001 9:09 AM Subject: Re: Server failure > On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, scott

Re: Server failure

2001-04-27 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, David Talkington wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > scott.list wrote: > > > >3. other things I can try if it happens again short of an ungracefull power > >cycle? > > Another thought on this: if you have a root window open to this system > somewhere at the time o

Re: Server failure

2001-04-27 Thread David Talkington
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- scott.list wrote: >3. other things I can try if it happens again short of an ungracefull power >cycle? Another thought on this: if you have a root window open to this system somewhere at the time of the failure, you can sometimes sneak out of this safely by d

Re: Server failure

2001-04-27 Thread David Talkington
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- scott.list wrote: >fork: Resource temporarily unavailable Something's running you out of resources (memory, number of processes, etc.). My suggestion would be to run a script that monitors resource usage every minute or two and log it, to give you a snapshot

Re: Server failure

2001-04-27 Thread Richard Potter
On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, scott.list wrote: > I take care of a server fo a client that handles DNS, mail, and radius > authentication. Twice in as many months, the server has failed. Prior to > that it has performed without incident for a year or so. It is running > RH6.0 + updates. Sounds like

Server failure

2001-04-27 Thread scott.list
. Radius was not authenticating, but it's accounting logs continued to generate stop records for users attempting but failing to authenticate via radius (correct behavior), and for users disconnecting that were on prior to server failure. 4. Dns was not dns'ing . (rpm bind-8.2.3-0.6.x) 5.