From owner-freebsd-isp Sat Feb 23 8:15:53 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mail.alink.co.za (alink.co.za [196.22.208.45]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6D0537B41B for ; Sat, 23 Feb 2002 08:15:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from alink.co.za ([196.22.208.45]) by mail.alink.co.za with smtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16eepM-0000IG-00; Sat, 23 Feb 2002 18:15:12 +0200 Received: from 196.22.208.50 (SquirrelMail authenticated user george) by mail.alink.co.za with HTTP; Sat, 23 Feb 2002 18:15:12 +0200 (SAST) Message-ID: <2630.196.22.208.50.1014480912.squirrel@mail.alink.co.za> Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2002 18:15:12 +0200 (SAST) Subject: Re: machine hangs From: "George Barnett" To: In-Reply-To: References: X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Cc: X-Mailer: SquirrelMail (version 1.2.4) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > I am working with an ISP that is running 4.4 on a server. Periodically, > this server hangs for no known reason. No messages in the logs and no > indication of what caused the lockup. Since I'm new to freeBSD, can If the machine hangs for no apparent reason, it's usually not software related but rather a hardware fault. Perhaps pull the machine out and run it on your desk for a while (if practical) and see if perhaps the CPU fan stops spinning or there is anything that seems to hot inside. Also, what might be usefull, is to set up a log which catches everything for a while. To do this, add the following to your syslog.conf: *.* /var/log/everything and then touch the file /var/log/everything so it exists. If the machine then crashes, go and see what the last message was (if there was one that's maybe related). Another thing you could try would be to turn try turn off power management in the machine's bios. Hope this helps -G ------------------------------- A C T I V E L I N K --Johannesburg - South Africa-- George Barnett Unix Solutions Engineer --george@alink.co.za The mind is a wonderful prison.. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message