Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 20:19:59 -0600 (CST) From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: Bart <bart@no-x.nl> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ping OK, daemons dead ? Message-ID: <14875.11599.841416.227931@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <87345815@toto.iv>
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Bart <bart@no-x.nl> types: > On Tue, 21 Nov 2000, brian william wolter wrote: > > > of situations; is it possible to use a script/program > > > which reboots the machine after 12 hours of no > > > activity of some kind of daemon (or login). > > you'd probibly be better off writing a script that will just restart the > > daemons that are dying on you, that way you won't have the downtime that > > will result from actually rebooting. you can just have the script check > > to see if the processes are still running and restart them if they are > > not. then just put it in the crontabs to execute every so often. > Well, I can not reach the console at this moment (it's a machine > located somewhere else) but the weird part is that I *can* connect > (using telnet) but no "login:" appears: > > acid2:/1/home/skin$ telnet mymachine.nl > Trying 212.104.204.x... > Connected to mymachine.nl. > Escape character is '^]'. > > So the daemon ain't dead... Those are the symptoms you see if one or more disks can't be accessed. Are you getting any error messages in the logs related to the disk? Do you have any daemons running that can respond without touching a disk (Apache status pages, maybe?)? <mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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