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by any chance is it running snmpd?

Noah.

On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, Dave wrote:

> Had a box die on us noon yesterday.  on hard reboot (after a drive to the
> colofacility) box was complaining about all sorts of problems in the /usr
> partition.  Since we had a backup of recent data, just clicked the default to
> repair, fix, delete, whatever to all the various problems.  Systems rebooted
> fine after that (few minor issues regarding postgres tmp files and such, but
> other than that no apparent problems).
>
> Am unable to get any clue as to what the problem was.
>
> Box simply stopped responding to any WWW, FTP, SSH...  even ping.
>
> all FTP accounts are chroot'ed, no telnet, just ssh, apache is reasonably
> harddened as is PHP and other such utilities.
>
> Have checked just about every log file in /var/log/ with a modification date of
> the 14th (today) and do not see anything other than being able to narrow down
> the exact time that the server went offline.  Nothing in httpd logs, messages,
> any mail files (occasional nim attack, but that doesn't do anything)...
>
> anywhere else that I am not looking that would shed some light on this.  Would
> have to take the box down and rebuild the server from backup if the problem was
> software related...  drawing a blank though.
>
> comments, suggestions, ideas appreciated.
>
> Dave
>
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