[Techtalk] mysterious system halts - how to prevent/fix/detect?

[Mandi]

On Wed, 5 Jun 2002, Julie Meloni wrote:

> Hi -
>
> Any suggestions, swift kicks upside the head, etc would be greatly
> appreciated.   I have a SuSE-based web/db/mail server that has been
> alive and running brilliantly for 10 months.  In that time, I rebooted
> it once, for no reason that I recollect now.
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Check your harddrive usage as well, to see if any of the disks are full.

You may also want to poke around looking for a cracker, nmap scan the box,
see if anything weird is open and listening.

--mandi