Duncan Shannon wrote:
> Ive got my gateway at work, which is a beater 233mhz box running rh 7.x
> i think its dying... or at a min. something is wrong.
> 
> I logged in the other day on the console, and hit a `w` and it was 
> pretty slow... i logged in on another virt. console and it ran `top` 
> and it never quite loaded up all the way... i left it alone.
> 
> Yesterday, i tried to ssh to it, i got an `error 11` and couldnt 
> connect.
> 
> So i went up to look at it today, and there was what looked like a 
> kernel panic... it was something bad. couldn't do anything from ctrl c 
> to switch virtual consoles to reseting the terminal.
> 
> I finally had to reboot it... when it booted up, it never got past 
> `mounting USB filesystem`

are you sure it wasn't hacked?  had you kept up with the latest patches
and versions of software?

> in the end, i dropped in a replacement box... id like to rescue the 
> other box somehow, is it as all my monitoring software setup and just 
> some other things setup (bind for internal use with an internal zone et 
> al)
> 
> Anyone have any suggestions on how to try and bring that box backup 
> online? I was thinking of removing all non-essential drives and 
> peripherals.

restore the necessary files from backups...you DO have backups right? 
-- 
scot

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